Tender Journey — Sally Cheney

The Right Track

On board a rattling train, hurtling headlong into the future, Julia Masonet was not looking back. Her girlish follies behind her, she knew her journey's end would be her life's beginning. Back there was her guardian, Richard, voice of English reason to her French impetuousness. Back there was the man she loved -- whether she admitted it or not.

A well-ordered life presented well-ordered choices: all simple, clear-cut, responsible. Of this, Richard Edmond, raised with proper English sensibilities, was certain. Or he had been certain, until an enchanting, unruly French girl became his ward. What compelling magic had Julia spun round his heart?