Publisher's Synopsis
Peter Simpson, recently promoted to professor at a Midlands university, finds himself early one evening confronted by a man he hasn't met for some twenty years and with whom he has no wish to renew acquaintance. Terry DeVine, a pushy youth from the south, had gone off with one of Simpson's favourite students, a brilliant young woman who disappeared from the university without taking her degree and who, Simpson later heard, had died in giving birth to a daughter.
