Backlash by Natalia Zabaneh

'It is growing dark, night is approaching and I am alone.'
Margaret Dean is attractive, middle-aged and a lesbian. A schoolteacher, she has suppressed her emotions into an empty, dry routine, guarding her feelings against the normal world around her.
Then Kate bursts into Margaret's arid life. Vibrantly alive she breaks down the older woman's reservations and they begin an affair.
But for Margaret it is too late, too passionate an acceptance of her lesbian feelings. And finally she is left alone again.