Dark Days
Author: first_name: Hugh
last_name: Conway
Language: English
Year: 1884

Basil North, a thirty-year-old medical doctor, leads a busy life establishing his medical practice in a large English provincial town.  His life has no room for a woman in it until Basil meets the beautiful Phillipa and immediately falls deeply in love. But Phillipa loves him not.  She moves to London and, while there, meets and marries another man. The crestfallen Basil, believing that he has lost the only woman in the world whom he can love, sells his medical practice and becomes a morose man