Private Paradise

A World Apart

Lena Taber had learned a hard lesson amid the poverty and squalor of New York's teeming Lower East Side--not to want what she could never have. And Gilbert Brigham, the glittering young society doctor who had opened his country cottage to the children in her care, could surely never belong to a poor immigrant's daughter.

The green and welcoming countryside was working wonders on her ragged, tenement-bred charges, but Lena knew these few precious weeks could bring her nothing but grief. She simply could not stop wanting a man--and a world--that must surely be forever beyond her reach.