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Young, rich, intelligent and unconventionally frank, Gallia Hamesthwaite embraces the dictates of reason and shuns the impulses of passion. As a child she preferred studying, geography, history, science. A grown woman she must now choose between sensible 'rational marriage' and sensual romantic love. But in pursuing the secure please of a logical life Gallia must also endure the pain of emotional sacrifice inherent in the modern woman's quest for self-fulfilment.