"Could anybody be more prosaic, less romantic, less gallant and more constant than a solid Welsh socialist husband of ten years' standing? Why, only a forty-year-old Latin lover, of course. Rose Williams was not only married, Welsh, thirty and sensible, she was also in America on a scholarship to study Americans; but it was Giorgio, an Italian professor of International Law, who claimed her attention, who whisked her away in his convertible on a motel trip across the States. As we follow this strangely incongruous pair, quarrelling, coming together, travelling uneasily along electrically charged parallel lines, a wonderful real and delightfully comic picture emerges"--Publisher's description.