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Outward bound for India, Liz Redwood, 37, is a tense package. After a few days at sea, she confides in another woman passenger: "What would you say . . . if I told you I was a woman . . . taken in adultery." The other passenger advises Liz to forget it and enjoy the trip. But Liz can't forget, and can't forgive herself. Her husband Charles, a steady fellow who works for the State Department, had been terribly understanding about the whole thing, too. But Liz insisted on a separation, and a trip to India, to find herself...
...make matters worse, Liz gets that old loose-woman feeling whenever she is near the ship's captain ("Wave after wave of cigar smoke, eau de cologne and maleness broke over her"). Sure enough, she falls again, and thinks she has stripped her moral gears for keeps. At this logical jumping-off place for a French bedroom farce, Novelist Vincent Sheean, writing with perfect seriousness, has his heroine leap into Indian mysticism. In Sheean's handling, it is as crashingly pointless as a dive into an empty swimming pool...
...Liz heads for a guru (Hindu wise man) as soon as she hits Calcutta, and they swap profundities. She: "How can one know the time?" He: "You cannot know until it has come." She: "The readiness is all? But I am ready." He: "Then you cannot have long to wait." This kind of talk is a bit heady for Liz and she experiences darshan, "a certain electro-magnetic flow...
...next few days, the tabloids avidly reported the course of true love. Arriving in London "tired and in a tizzy" Liz was nevertheless ready with a bit of philosophy: "Happiness is a fragile thing and we have so little time for it." For a while it seemed as if happiness could hang on such a fragile thing as poor memory. Liz had forgotten to bring along her divorce papers, but science came to the rescue. Confirmation that she was legally divorced from Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton arrived from California by cable in time for the ten-minute civil ceremony in Westminster...
Outside the musty old building, a crowd of some 1,000 fans gathered to pay near-riotous respects and to shout congratulations to "Liz" and "Mike." Delayed for several minutes, pawed, mauled and aided by burly policemen, the newlyweds finally got to their limousine and rolled off to a champagne reception at Claridge's. While Mike straightened his twisted clothes, Liz had the strength to give the panting crowd a farewell quote: "This is the beginning of a happy...