The kept woman, the mistress - clothed in mink, dripping with diamonds: the good-time girl - getting the best from a man, without the responsibility of being married to him: the marriage-breaker: the tart. The popular-one could almost say conventional-image of ' the other woman ' draws more from fiction than reality. For her in reality there is loneliness, a particularly hurting kind of jealousy, and a few snatched moments of furtive happiness. Whether she is morally right or wrong, do we understand her life?