Yellowing on book jacket and pages due to age Knopf, 1969 book club edition, 251 pages The qualities of sympathy and affection-and quiet acerbity-that made readers respond with joy to the appearance, in 1968, of Mrs. Beneker, are joined with a new depth of feeling in this moving portrayal of Molly Gilbert, the loving wife of Violet Weingarten's new novel. Molly (the wife) disconcerted because her husband keeps telling her to do just what she wants to do; Molly (the mother) embarrassed about putting her college son in the same bedroom with his girl; Molly (the social worker) coping coolly with boards of directors and warmly with her charges; Molly (the monogamous) alarmed at finding herself attracted by a man who is not her husband; Molly (the mistress) hesitating outside hotel rooms —and abandoning herself once inside them; Molly (the "liberated") filled with remorse and shame; Molly (the desperate) cutting loose from unbearable com-plications, flying alone to Rome to sort out her life.