THE LADY WHO LOVED AGAIN

Southland Times, Issue 21732, 18 June 1932, Page 11

THE LADY WHO LOVED AGAIN

Pauline Warwick has moved a long way forward from “The Secret Year,” and “The Girdle of Venus,” though she has risked her hero’s reputation for stability in throwing him into the arms of the wrong woman after Rosalind has refused him. Fitzroy Sholto-Scott, in spite of his lofty name, was a modest fellow who dreaded the notoriety his air-speed records thrust on him; but it was this notoriety which led him to meet Primula Staniforth, the “Princess of Stocks and Shares,” and to see again Flip, whom he had loved as a boy. But Flip was now. Primula’s Aunt Rosey and was moving gracefully, and .a little sadly int» middleage, a spinster wedded to the memory of a lover who was killed just before they were to be married. Primula, the beautiful and daring, decided she would have the airman, but he set off on the hopeless pursuit of Flip. This is the setting for “Background to Primula” in which the author has skilfully worked out her main love story without permitting it to overwhelm Primula. It is the dead lover’s memory which goes perilously close to snapping the thread, and which drives the author to the trick of putting the hero in a motor accident on the eve of his wedding to Primula so as to open the way for the surrender of Rosalind and the happy ending which has been proposed right at the beginning. “Background to Primula” is a light-weight, but it is a cheerful romance and well worth reading. “Background to Primula” by Pauline Warwick, is published by Messrs Mills and Boon, Ltd., London, whence came my copy.