The Sugar Mother: Elizabeth JolleyEdwin Page, a fussy middle aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who has accepted a year's fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors, Mrs. Botts and her sexy, twentyish daughter, Leila, arrive. Since they're locked out of their house, Edwin invites them in and then can't get them to leave. He becomes obsessed with Leila and convinces himself that she is a perfect surrogate mother for the childless Cecilia.