Woman of Fire — Peggy Gaddis

It was after ten when she and Clem left the party ... He said, a trifle thickly, "Where to? I haven't any idea where you live. " Viola slid close to him and lifted her face until her lips were against his ear. She spoke straight from her wildly beating heart, "Take me home with you. Please -- please take me home with you".
His arms encircled her ... "Sure, why not? Why the devil not? " He leaned forward, gave the taxi-driver his address and turned to pull Viola's trembling body hard against him. He covered her lips with his ...
Viola Barton thought that she could throw away her heart, deny her son his true father, and make a life for herself without the ecstasy of a young man's love. She married Eugene, old and dying and passionless ... and then found that there are wellsprings in a woman's soul which cannot be stifled or denied
There was room in her thoughts only for Clem ... here beside her ...