Desperate Decision // Impatient Griselda — Sheila Bishop

How does a woman cope with a man whose pathological jealousy becomes a physical threat to her life -- a man who hears an assignation in the commonplace greeting of a newsboy?

To Sophia Lanchard, frightened and bitterly resentful of her husband Rufus, the only solace was the sympathetic shoulder of her husband's distant cousin, Miles Roper. In Miles, a widower, Sophia found a compassionate and kindred spirit.

They didn't intend to fall in love, but looking back on it, it was inevitable. And then Fate played a strange and capricious trick on the clandestine lovers, and soon Sophia was faced with the most painful decision a woman can make...