Dionysos in Tears

When John Lion Deveron meets April McCreagh a young beautiful secretary at his newspaper office a strange fantasy should have warned him that his staid comfortable (but childless) marriage is endangered. A pleasant summer of luncheons together evolves into only a pattern of family visits clouded by the disapproval of Lion's wife Cynthia.</p><p>But April's determination if unconscious is not to be deterred by his marriage--or her own subsequent one. The social and distance barriers to their union seem insurmountable. However whether or not as friend Brightwood suggests some Destiny is involved their mutual attraction is inexorable--and Mother wants a grandson.</p><p>Dissolving the barriers to their consummation involves Lion's conversion by virtue of April's poetic fancy from a rather conservative newsman into a springtime forest god. The conversion successful-at heavy cost-Lion finds that alas to trust a woman is to write one's memoirs in the snow. When their tug of war concludes he is confronted with the ultimate question: has he won or lost?</p>