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...named Helene. As in Guerre, she starts out as the victim--this time, eight months pregnant, abandoned on the roadside by a villainous boyfriend. Desperate, Helene invests what money she has in a ticket to "the train to the sun," on the train she meets another pregnant woman. Patricia Meyrand and her husband, who are on their way to meet his parents in Bordeaux Loud, kind, and as aggressive as Helene is retiring. Patricia tries to look out for the abandoned woman, regaling her with memories of California--"Where dames take no guff"--and tales of the in-laws...
...next thing Helene knows, she wakes up in a hospital ward. The train has been derailed, the Meyrands killed, and Helene become mother to a healthy boy. What is more. Helene soon learns that she, found asleep in the Meyrands compartment, has been mistaken for Patricia. The old M Meyrand, obviously wealthy, infinitely benevolent, and accompanied by Pierre, a handsome, younger son, shows up to invite the new Patricia--Helene to join the family at its Chateau. At first adamant about recovering her identity. Helene begins to waver: there is, after all, nowhere else for her to go--the scheme...
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