TIght, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in lightly worn DJ. Owner's name, dated. BCE. The story of a search into the human heart told on two levels of characterization, in two generations reach of time. Mrs. Janeway has succeeded in bringing to life two women:- an elderly autocrat, accustomed to admiration, obedience to her whims, acceptance of her authority, and now held in the vise of physical immobility- Mrs. Belchamber and her niece, Lorraine de Koning, whose proper husband, Herbert, was able to reduce her to terror by his scathing criticism of her inadequacies. National Book Award Finalist (1960)