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Title: When Two Paths Meet
Harlequin Enterprises
Item Number: 9780373029563
Number: 1
Product Description: When Two Paths Meet
Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780373029563
WonderClub Stock Keeping Unit (WSKU): 9780373029563
Rating: 4/5 based on 1 Reviews
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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)
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Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross
Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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Vaughn Brooks
reviewed When Two Paths Meet on February 14, 20154.5 stars. Katherine Marsh is one of the downtrodden but plucky Aramintas. She has been held prisoner, er, living at her brother’s home for the past two years and slaving, I mean, working unpaid for his unspeakably lazy wife when she answers a portentous knock at 5:30 one morning. It is Jason Fitzroy, (a white knight on his charger to rescue her) a doctor who has found an abandoned newborn on the roadside. Katherine helps him get the baby warmed and then over the protests of the obnoxious Joyce (this is the second nasty sister/sister-in-law named Joyce in the Canon – TGB must have disliked the name), accompanies him to the hospital so she can hold the infant while he drives. He pays for her breakfast at the hospital canteen, too, and then takes her back to her home. He has already figured out what kind of situation she is in, having been smitten by her remarkably fine grey eyes . . . but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Katherine dreams about him a lot over the next few days, having fallen for him at first sight – and who could fault her for her dreams, with the dismal life she leads?! So when he shows up again a few days later and offers her a job as a companion to an elderly couple who are his patients, she jumps at the chance. After all, as she tells a petulant Henry, “It will be nice to have some money,” since as she was his sister, Henry never thought it necessary to pay her for doing the bulk of the cooking and cleaning and all of the childcare.
The Graingers are a nice old couple; Betty, it is really a shame that you saddled them with such a nasty piece of work as Dodie for a granddaughter. Katherine has settled nicely into her role as companion, even winning over the rather sour housekeeper. She sees Dr. Fitzroy twice a week and has a couple of hours each afternoon to explore the town (I admit to being envious of Katherine being so close to Salisbury Cathedral – I, too, would love to have the time to explore it).
Dodie has apparently long been determined to become Mrs. Fitzroy and sees Katherine as competition. She devises a plan to temporarily move her grandparents away, leaving Katherine without a job. Fortunately, Jason comes to the rescue and gets her a job at the hospital as a nurses’ aide and points her to a room in a boarding house owned by his housekeeper’s sister.
Katie enjoys her new job in spite of the hard work and aching feet at day’s end. Jason contrives to see her often, although she is only aware of bumping into him often. She also meets his cousin, Edward, who is staying with him for a time. Edward takes her out a couple of times; they mutually agree to a brother/sister-type relationship.
Katie is off on Christmas Eve, works on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and has the next day off. She goes to the midnight service at the cathedral and runs into Jason, Dodie and Edward. Jason insists she come over to his house; they have snacks and hot chocolate and champagne. On the evening of Boxing Day, Katie runs into Jason; he invites her over for tea, then convinces her to stay for dinner after which Jason and Edward teach her to play poker. They also make plans to go to Stourhead on the next day, which turns out to be a lovely day in the snow. It is there that Jason first proposes, but he doesn’t tell Katie he loves her. She turns him down.
Jason has invited her to a party at his home on New Year’s Eve (or Old Year’s Night) – black tie, so she has to find a new dress and shoes. She bought a grey taffeta and grey velvet shoes; Edward tells her, “Clever girl! You’ll stand out like a nun at a circus.” Jason makes an allusion to marriage which she brushes off; Dodie is quite nasty to her; but she also meets some people who knew her parents and has quite a lovely time. Jason takes her home and again asks her to marry him. She says of course not and reminds him he is taking Dodie out; he says a man has to keep his hand in. He kisses her.
Mrs. Potts, the landlady, comes down with the flu and goes to hospital a few days. When she is released, Jason asks Katie to accompany her for a long weekend to his cottage at Bucklers Hard. On the drive to the cottage he asks if she has given any more thought to marrying him. She says, “I do wonder why you keep on about it.” He says that is a step in the right direction. When he leaves them at the cottage, Katie tells him to drive carefully. He says she sounds like a wife, so he feels justified in behaving like a husband; he swoops and kisses her hard.
Back at the hospital, Andy tells her she’s had a phone call and a man wants to meet her for coffee. She assumes it is Edward, but when she arrives at the coffee shop, finds her brother. Henry tries to get her to go back with him, but she refuses. She is angry and shaken and it shows on her face when she runs into Jason later. She tells him about it. He says it’s a pity that he has a date with Dodie; she says that he should hurry, because Dodie hates to be kept waiting. Jason answers yes, but he himself is willing to wait forever for someone he wants and asks, “is this the right moment for a proposal, Katie?” She doesn’t answer but runs away.
The next day, Matron calls her into her office and there is Henry. He has given Matron a cock-and-bull story about how his wife is desperately ill and they need Katherine to come help out. Katie says no, but Matron insists she should do her duty to her family. Katie gives up and goes with Henry, but tells him if Joyce isn’t sick, she won’t stay. Before she leaves the hospital, Katie tells her friend Andy where she has gone, in case “anyone” should ask.
Of course Joyce isn’t ill; Henry leaves as soon as he drops Katie off. Joyce laughs and says now Katie has to stay. Katie says she will get a bus or whatever. Joyce leaves also; Katie cleans up the children and the nursery and cooks them some breakfast. Joyce doesn’t come back until late in the day; Katie has been cleaning in the meantime. When Joyce comes back, she taunts Katie that the buses have stopped for the day and she will have to spend the night.
Meanwhile, Jason had seen Katie leave the hospital with a case and as soon as he was free, found out from Andy where she had gone. Naturally, he comes to rescue her again; when she sees him, she flies to him and says, “Jason! Oh, Jason, take me away from here!” while sniveling into his rock-solid chest.(!) He takes her to his home for supper and again asks her to marry him. He says that she can’t deny her love forever (but still doesn’t tell her he loves her). She admits she does love him but doesn’t know him very well. He tells her to get used to the idea of marrying him.
Next day at hospital, one of the patients reads an announcement from the newspaper that Dodie is marrying a Sir Gerard Wilden, owner of “a big estate” and “pots of money.” Katie jumps to the conclusion that Jason only wants to marry her to show Dodie he doesn’t care she is marrying someone else. When Jason comes to see her at her room, she throws her mistaken idea at him; he gets angry and calls her a “termagant with her head full of rubbishy fancies.” Oh, TGB, you had a way with words!
The Graingers are back and ask Katie to tea, over which Mrs. Grainger drops the tidbit that Dodie broke lots of hearts, but never Jason’s because he never fell for her, just treated her as a spoiled little sister. She makes plans to go away for a few days, then after that she can “be sensible” if she runs into him again. Instead she runs into him just outside the hospital, he takes her home and FINALLY makes a proper proposal in which he tells her he loves her. She tries to be stubborn but he convinces her with the idea of a quick, quiet wedding. He says he lost his heart the moment he saw her in her old dressing gown looking like a mouse with the most beautiful eyes in the world and that he hardly dared breathe for fear she would take fright and scamper off . . . She replies that she fell in love at the hospital canteen because he had told them to give her a good breakfast. Kissing follows!
This was very nice. I have a soft spot for the poor, plucky heroines. In spite of her downtrodden state, Katie has plenty of backbone. And Jason is just perfect for her, giving her the opportunity to get back on her feet and find her self-confidence. Edward is a nice brotherly cousin and Dodie is a nicely wicked OW. Background characters Andy and Mrs. Potts are nicely drawn.
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