title: Lord Orlando's Protege
author: SeBastian, Margaret
description: THE ACTRESS AND THE ARISTOCRAT -- SHE WAS HIS PROTÉGÉE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.
  
  Elinor Stapleton was an actress in a provincial touring company -- until a rake she had spurned trumped up a charge that landed her in a gaol!  Despite his distaste for the theater, Lord Orlando Gorth stepped in to make amends for his dastardly friend.  Then, suddenly, Elinor's career soared.  She went from Bath to London, straight to the Drury Lane Theater... and splash into the talk of the town, to the embarrassment of Lord Orlando, whose name was linked with hers but who was promised to another.
  
  Would Elinor bow out gracefully?  NO!  She vowed to stay and play out the greatest role of her career, determined to make the romantic rumors come true!