This is a gently self deprecating, ironic and often warmly, sadly humorous tale by Roswell Field of a widower's last shot at happiness in love...It is narrated in the first person, that being John; a well to do and reasonably well preserved (according to himself)middle aged widower. John falls for a much younger person; a person while delightful not entirely unproblematic: she is the orphaned daughter of his very first love...