"If Winter Comes" by A. S. M. Hutchinson is a novel first published in 1921. It follows Mark Sabre, an upstanding man trapped in a loveless marriage who faces scandal when he tries to help an unwed mother assumed to be his mistress. The situation spirals into divorce, job loss, and tragedy when the woman takes her own life. A bestseller in 1922, the novel tackles controversial themes of emotional adultery, unwed motherhood, and suicide while maintaining moral and religious idealism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)