Longing For You/Marrying Mary/An Ordinary Girl/The Convenient Wife by Betty Neels

Marrying Mary

A perfect wife?

Everyone in Mary’s family agreed that she would make some man a perfect wife one day. Mary’s problem was that the only man she had ever even thought about marrying was eminent heart specialist Roel van Rakesma. But it had been clear from the start that any attention Professor van Rakesma paid her was purely professional. His only interest was in curing frail hearts, not mending broken ones!

An Ordinary Girl

Professor James Forsyth is intrigued when he first meets Philomena Selby. She’s so shy and kind — he’s used to much more demanding women!

There was no doubt James is very handsome but Philly knows he has a fiancée and as a plain country girl, she can’t hope to match such a glamorous woman. But James has been struck by Philly’s inner beauty...and surely she’s much more the woman he wants as his wife?

The Convenient Wife

“It seems to me that it would be to our mutual advantage if you were to become my wife...”

Faced with no home and no family, Venetia was only too aware that Duert ter Laan-Luitinga’s solution to her problems was certainly practical — albeit rather unorthodox!

Yet, he seemed set on the idea of a marriage of convenience, and Venetia really had no choice but to agree. So, having found a sensible solution to her diffi culties, surely she wouldn’t be so foolish as to fall in love with him — would she?