FEATURED AUTHOR - Art Blegen is the author of “The Adventures of Kris”, a series of early middle-grade chapter books for young readers from six to ten years old. Each child is important, and each family matters to Art. He is an advocate for educating children and their parents to ensure they have a healthy balance of positive examples in their lives. Wholesome stories and a healthy imagination can lay the foundation they will use for the rest of their lives. Whether playing with his grandchildren or coaching…
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A man fines that his travel stories fall on deaf ears. He needs a a hired listener.
The listener turns into an understudy: one who sits in for him when he is otherwise engaged.
The listener/understudy idea works out well, but he decides that while one faithful listener is good, he needs to commit his travels to book form.
There is in his town a benevolent society/charity of ladies who while not a religious organization, adopt some simular rigid standards. It is the House of Martha.
The would be author, hires one of the ladies (a pretty girl actually), as a stenographer, with the money going to the society.
The arrangements are strained at first, but you guessed it they fall in love.Happiness is not quite so quickly attained. We have, these components/obstacles to consider:
o The man himself Hopelessly in love.
o The girl, is in love with the man, but is torn between her duty to the House of Martha, past disappointments and what she considers maybe, a selfish love on her part.
o The listener/understudy/valet who has become essential.
o The head of the House of Martha. Sympathetic, but loyal to the creed of the society.
o The less sympathetic and understanding sisters, at the society.
o The girls family. Not typical, to say the least.
o The family friend, who has the ways, but not the means to make all right.