After his first wife died, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious depression. Rear Adm. Cary Travers Grayson, his personal physician, and Helen Bones, Wilson's cousin and his wife's former secretary, conspired to bring the president together with a vivacious Washington widow, Edith Boiling Gait. Edith Galt and President Wilson first met by accident in a White House hallway, as she was returning from a walk in Rock Creek Park with Helen Bones, and he was returning from a round of golf with Dr. Grayson. As they all took tea in the Oval Room, the president was drawn to Gait's lively conversation and infectious laugh. An ardent courtship ensued, particularly during a lovely summer vacation at the home of American novelist Winston Churchill in Cornish, New Hampshire; but the president took to his bed in anguish when he thought the publicity of the match...