Florence Bailey had been gone from the city for three years, yet the talk about her still drifted through the upper circles. What people whispered was that she'd given herself to Timothy Malone at 20. They said she had traded her crown as the company's prima ballerina for an apron, washing his shirts and cooking his dinners like any ordinary wife. How far she lowered herself never seemed to change anything, because she still couldn't compete with the first love Timothy kept locked in his heart. Even so, plenty of people remembered the day she left. That morning, Timothy abandoned everything in his hands and chased her all the way to the airport to say one sentence, "Come back to me, Florence."