Five Years of Marriage to Mr. Bradford

Rebecca Perry has been Vance Bradford's wife for five years, and she has never been his wife in any real sense. On their anniversary she hears him in the shower whisper another woman's name, Catherine, and something inside her finally breaks. Since the accident that injured her leg she has hidden from the world, convinced a woman like her does not deserve a man as brilliant as Vance. Then Catherine Welch returns, and Rebecca sees the warmth her husband saves for everyone but her. Quietly, she has already begun preparing to leave: she studies French, pays admission fees, and plans a life far from the man who gives her the same gift every year. When she walks in on his friends mocking her, she says no for the first time. Will Vance notice what he is losing before she is gone?