US romance of marital estrangement and reconciliation through a child. Audrey Eames marries noble Wanley Randall to prove her indifference to a suitor rumoured to have married another. When both discover that he is single and she loves him Wanley and Audrey are estranged - until grief, self-restraint, and the shared love of an orphaned niece reconcile them on her bed of sickness. Love learned through character reformation ... (PB)