The third in this series, this continues the career of Eve Hastings, still a fine figure of a woman (and heaving it around) as after the death of her second husband, she looks around for a third. Courted by older Senator Wayne Pepperidge, and accepting his offer of marriage although she defers the date, Eve's interest is really caught by Phil Dunham, incommunicative and inaccessible. At the death of Phil's mother, he tells her of his illegitimacy, destroys her worship of her father whom he claims responsible, but although Eve is later able to prove that ""the Duke"" was not to blame, she is never able to reconcile their romance and she sands for her Senator.... Age may not wither her, but does custom stale?