The Doctor's Wife
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You play Isabel Sleaford, reading romances to escape a shabby, debt-ridden household, when your brother's old schoolfriend George Gilbert, a plain-spoken country doctor, visits for the summer. His steady kindness unsettles you more than any novel's hero, and months of unromantic letters bring him back to propose on a small bridge, offering a modest future with no mystery in it. By the chapter's end you accept, still unsure whether you want the life he offers or only the rescue it represents.
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- A Proposal on the Little BridgeCamberwell and Hurstonleigh