He needs a wife-someone like
me!" Meg Collins was an old-fashioned country girl facing an uncertain
future. Now that the family house was being sold, Meg had to find a job. But
where? Her skills were in cooking and gardening-not shorthand and typing.
Professor Ralph Culver offered a solution. The eminent doctor needed a
"sensible, domestic person" to work in his London office. Someone
like Meg. But it wasn't very sensible to fall in love with the professor. Or to
hope that he would fall in love with her.
