A story of the dangerous age in the life of a happily married man of forty, who neither seeks nor wants an adventure in casual romance, and whose pattern of life is made. A sensitive presentation of a more-than-common type of triangle, well written, and enlightening. The title leads one to expect the Macaulay sort of fiction -- it is a much better book than is suggested, and should have a fair sale and fair rental among the middle aged near-moderns.