Allen Harris is a pillar of the community, a married lawyer of spotless
reputation who is asked to assume the presidency of a conservative university
after its last president has been fired for engaging in a sexual affair with a
student. He is to be vetted by the Board of Directors who want to be certain
that there is nothing in Harris' past that will cause another scandal that has
badly damaged the image of the institution. He asserts to the board that his
married life is without blemish and he has never engaged in adulterous or
clandestine affairs. His assertion is an outright lie since he, cunningly and
secretly, engaged in a series of sexual liaisons in other cities in the course
of his practice. To assure that these relationships remain secret, he decides to
surreptitiously set about finding these former lovers to be certain that they
will not reveal his double life and spoil his chances for the presidency. Of the
four women with whom he had entered into these relationships he finds three but
cannot find the fourth. What he discovers is the startling truth about these
affairs and a bizarre twist of fate that reveals what happened to his fourth
mistress.
