To Know and to Love — Jane Rossiter

New Man in Town…

Was it love, or habit, or fear of being left and “old maid” that caused Stella Hastings to date Don Hunt for four years without any real promises of marriage? She told herself it was love…but that was before Paul Christie came to town. Stella heard about Paul before she met him, from Don who obviously didn't care for the “new genius” in his engineering group at Cottman Instrument Corporation. But Stella met Paul under circumstances guaranteed to make her like him: he came to her rescue after she accidently hit a dog that ran out in front of her car. That chance encounter was enough to make Don jealous, but when he asked Stella not to see Paul again, she rebelled. She did see him, felt herself more and more drawn to him…and didn't realize how much she had come to care until she heard him accused of a betrayal she knew he could never be guilty of…