title: The Soldier's Woman
author: Long, Freda M.
description: When Lieutenant Alain d'Albert was deserted by his girlfriend, a replacement was at hand in the shape of Christina Calvi, whose yearning for respectability through marriage did not quite coincide with her profession as a soldier's woman.  Christina's obsessive love for Alain was not returned.  The handsome hussar married an heiress and banished the soldier's woman from his life.  But Christina was unswerving in the pursuit of her dream and Alain found his resistance weakening...