If only Marius would ride up on a white horse and ask for her hand in marriage. But can real people live happily ever after like those people in fairy tales? Reissue.

    It was so foolish of Lorenz, because Rob didn't mean anything to her any more . . .

    She had accepted nevertheless, unable to refuse the man she secretly loved --- even though he said nothing of loving her. And now his family treated her with a deep resentment. As if someone else, namely Caroline Cook, should be in her place! But Francis had married her and she was not giving up on him.