Love's Willful Call

The stage was love enough for her -- until she looked into his dark eyes. SHE WAS OPHELIA!

Lord Durant watched Hannah Sheffield from the back of the darkened theater as she portrayed Hamlet's broken-hearted love. She thought she was alone as she said the timeless words, and her resolve to follow a career on the stage deepened as her voice echoed through the hall. She would be an actress. Despite the fact that her father had a title now, he was once an actor -- and she would follow in his footsteps.

Hannah had set upon a course of rebellion, spurning the conventional life her father sought for her, spurning the love of a man. But one day upon that same stage, she would look up into the eyes of the man who gazed upon her now -- and yearn to play another role.