The Time of Her Life — Marjorie Eatock

Evelyn Cass's old friends whispered about her behind her back; they felt sorry for poor Evelyn -- alone at fifty-five, having to sell her house and go to work! So brave! Funny though, how all of a sudden she was looking ten years younger... -- "Poor Evelyn" smiled...and kept her secrets to herself. Her job was hard work, but it was fun. And what a relief it was to be out of that big old house and into a spiffy new apartment. Her friends wouldn't understand those things, and they certainly wouldn't understand what it felt like to pick up the phone and hear Bob's deep voice...to feel like a woman again when he told her she looked pretty. No, Evelyn thought, her friends were making a big mistake, wasting their sympathy on her. She was O.K. She was more than O.K. In fact, for the first time in years -- in decades -- Evelyn was having The Time Of Her Life.

Hero: Bob Marsh
Heroine: Evelyn Matthews Cass