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...California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf to any plea short of wedding bells...
...struggle is an arduous one, for as the Harries' old seamstress tells Pam, "It is like royalty in England, he will not think of marrying a commoner." "But what is royalty in this country?" asks Pam. "Is it just having a lot of money...
Though Novelist Sinclair puts Pam through her passes with plenty of dry humor, most readers will have had just about enough of her by the time she and Charles depart on their honeymoon. What rarely flags is Author Sinclair's expanding picture of the Harries menage. Its doors are open day & night (Pam bolts hers) to a flow of cranks and zealots ranging from pinks to Hindu lecturers...
More than most ex-G.I.s who had married English girls, former Paratrooper Joe Cananzey, of Taunton, Mass., sweated out his separation from his wife. Pam Cananzey, whom Joe had met on a blind date at Nottingham Castle, and wooed in Sherwood Forest, was tubercular. Just how ill she was Joe did not guess until he received a telegram last week: "Pam sinking fast, calling...
...England. The Taunton Gazette heard the story, published it. In six days, Taunton citizens raised $2,000 for Joe's plane fare and expenses, and Massachusetts' Congressman Joe Martin hustled through his passport. At week's end, after a flight across the sea, Joe and Pam were together again, if only for a while...