Janet Stacey could not believe it when Peter Fuller broke their engagement. He told her that it would be unfair of him with so little income to ruin her chances for a “successful” marriage. Only a girl as much in love as Janet could have failed to read between the lines of such an excuse.
As it was, she asked her uncle, owner of a shipping line, to employ her as assistant nurse on the luxury liner Regina, on which Peter was taking a business trip to New York. She thought that is she saw him every day she would be bound to win him back.
In this innocent hope she reckoned not only without Peter himself, but without the ship's doctor, Blane Hartley, who despised all girls in general, and Janet, privileged niece of the shipowner, in particular.
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