Doctor Westland / The Affair in Tangier

~~~ first publication in 1962 by Mills & Boon as "The Affair in Tangier"

"Provocative women left him cold, he had told Tess menacingly, but it was probably a half-truth. True coldness is indifference, and somehow you couldn't imagine Dr. Westland indifferent to anything at all. He was too sure of himself, too positive. And yet was it the act of a positive man to ask a strange young woman like Tess out to his house in Tangier for lunch because he had something important to discuss with her? Her heart began to beat erratically. Why had he deliberately come to the clinic this morning, to find Tess Carlen?"

Whatever the reason -- and Tess scarcely knew Dr. Westland -- she was aware that she could not resist accepting the invitation, such was his compelling personality. So Tess went, and afterwards she knew that life could never be quite the same again

Hero: Dr./Doctor Boyd or Philip Westland
Heroine: Tess Carlen
Son: Benito Westland