The silver casket

Laura knew there was no future for them

Right from their first meeting, Laura felt that Tom Farrell would change her life.

Somehow he brought her painfully out of her cocoon of work and uninvolvement as no one else had done. At last she was fully aware of herself as a woman; aware of new dreams coming into her life.

But Tom Farrell had made it perfectly clear that he could offer nothing but an affair--and loving him as she did, Laura realized that for her it just wouldn't be enough....