Melodie Neil and Jed Martin were old friends; she knew that he loved her — in a calm, settled way rather than with any grand passion — and that he would make her a good, kind husband; in short, when she became engaged to him she knew exactly what she was doing. So she deeply resented it when that infuriating Keith Scott seemed to go out of his way to suggest that her heart wasn’t in the affair. Perhaps it wouldn’t do for Keith — he was, after all, half Argentinian and had the Spaniard’s haughty outlook on women — but in that case why didn’t he just leave Melodie alone and concentrate on his own fiancee, the temperamental Maria Santas?
Dangerous Stranger (U)
