Gina longed to share her life with the man she loved, but Charles told her love must wait. Gina must learn sophistication, devote herself to becoming a suitable wife for a fashionable author. Charles’s apparent indifference saddened and frightened Gina, for she was horrified by the new Charles who she couldn’t understand. In bewilderment, she turned to Peter for help and by doing so resolved her problems and found the love for which she had waited.