James comes to visit his first wife, Sarah. Independant now, and wary, she sees exactly what will happen: exotic, suffering, duplicitious Rose, the second wife will reel her in. In a stark moment of insight, Sarah understand why - then makes her escape.

Doris Lessing's candid stories about the wars between men and women are forceful studies of the barbs and temptations involved in loving.

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