When Love's Beginning

To leave London for a remote Northumbrian village may sound like a descent into dullness; but Veronica Benley found it quite the reverse. An only child, she was enchanted by life with the Elveys —a large family, gay and affectionate, who joyously accepted her as one of themselves. Then came romance—and for a time it seemed as if the claims of love were in conflict with those of the friends who had come to depend on her. Could she possibly take her own happiness at the expense of theirs?