The sensitivities of a stranger to these shores reacted to a segment of American life that people seldom discuss, or even seem aware of. Miss Woljar unerringly has portrayed the lengths some people will go to in their mad climb for success, how they actually will put a price tag on themselves and their loved ones to advance one more rung up the ladder in the arena of commerce. Rod Waleman achieves his thematic purpose by introducing the reader to Joan and Harry Welby, so typical of young American married couples whose thirsts for the material comforts available through money make them forget that life has a higher meaning and carries with it the responsibility for one's own conduct.