"I’ll worship you all my life on my knees," said Joan. "I’m not worthy to touch your hand. But I will be. I will be a new self." "Only the best of the old one, that is all I want," answered her lover. "The past is like a garment which you wore for protection against the storm. But there will be no more storms after this." "Because you have forgiven me, because you believe in me," cried Joan, "you will make of me the woman you would have me!" "The woman you really are, or I would not have loved you," he said. And so it was that Joan Carthew’s career ended and her life began. Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.