The Hundredth Chance

A romance novel about a woman that marries a complete stranger and the hardships and triumphs that ensue. . Lady Brian was forty-five but she looked many years younger. She was a very pretty woman delicate-featured softly-tinted with a species of appealing charm about her that all but the stony-hearted few found it hard to resist. She put her daughter wholly in the shade but then Maud never attempted to charm anyone. She had apparently no use for the homage that was as the very breath of life to her mother's worldly little soul. She never courted popularity. All her being seemed to be bound up in that of her young brother who had been a helpless cripple from his babyhood and dependent upon her care. The ten years that stretched between them were as nought to these two. They were pals; and if the boy tyrannized freely over her she was undoubtedly the only person in the world for whom he entertained the smallest regard. She had lavished all a mother's love upon him during the whole of his fifteen years and she alone knew how much had been sacrificed before the shrine of her devotion. He filled all the empty spaces in her heart.