Some Do Not ...

Ford Madox Ford creates, in Christopher Tietjens, a pillar of rectitude in a crumbling world. Although set during war, a war which in fact damages Tietjens badly, the battlefield makes no appearance. Instead it is in the homes and clubs of Edwardian England where the breakdown is shown to occur. Tietjens is the last good man; his mistress is perhaps the last good woman. What chance can they have?