Year's Happy Ending

Could she settle for less than love?

Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He reviled her future as a trained nanny, destined to settle for a permanent post caring for other people's children.

But was his proposal any more enticing, when all he wanted was a substitute for his young daughter and nothing more? I won't pretend, he told her candidly. You see, I think I've forgotten how to love.

Deborah found herself wishing the sultry skies of Portugal's exotic Algarve weren't wasted on such a cynical widower and a dedicated nanny with stars in her eyes.