Love in the Afternoon — Rose Burghley

Stephen Lestrange, aged thirty-seven, had reached the afternoon of his life before he decided to get married. Rich, attractive, a highly successful portrait painter living a glamorous life in Paris, having his own way in everything, could such a man settle down to marriage with a quiet little thing like Lucy? Particularly when, as she was aware, he had married her on the rebound? But Lucy had resources of her own, and when the lovely, unscrupulous Helga came back into Stephen's life with the clear intention of remaining there, the two girls were more evenly matched than an outside observer might have thought ...