In the 1950s, she wrote an unpublished novelette titled "The Edge of Life", which was deemed unsuitable by the publishers. The plot is about a heroine who waits patiently for her childhood sweetheart, who is a soldier in the Union army in the Civil War. A day or two before the wedding, she receives news that he had been killed. Years pass, she meets another young man, whom she mistakes for her long-lost lover. Though this new lover is terminally ill, he too falls in love with her. They end up happily together, in the belief that Love, the great healer, will cure all.