A Matter of Feeling — Sophie Weston

Ten years could not erase the memory

When unsophisticated teenager Barbara Lamb turned her back on Portugal, she'd made a new life and career for herself in England. Her one aim was never again to have to ask anyone for help.

When her old friend Pepita asked her for help--to explain to the Marques Ruy Nieves dos Santos that Pepita had changed her mind about marrying him--the ice around Barbara's heart began to crack.

Because it was from Ruy that she had fled--and it was the memory of his contempt that made her afraid to fall in love....