First Class, Lady? // Love and Linda — Barbara Cartland

Gift Of Innocence

Linda Snell, a rising young model at one of London's best fashion houses, had many rare qualities besides her golden hair and frail beauty--especially her courageous honesty and appealing innocence.

Linda never denied that she was the illegitimate daughter of a one-time lady acrobat, now married to a bar-keep. Nor would she, like her friends, give herself to the many wealthy gentlemen who showered her with gifts, took her about in society, and even proposed marriage.

It all seemed worth it when she fell in love with Harry Rumford, the famed London flier whose background was as humble as her own. They were to be married after his next big race. But Harry never returned. That was when Linda, dazed and heart-broken, made her first mistake...