Roberta Leigh - In Name Only
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Roberta Leigh - In Name Only
Roberta Leigh -
In Name Only
Jane Roberts had married Nicholas Hamilton because
she loved him, yet knowing that his only reason for marrying her was that under
the terms of his father's will he would be disinherited if he didn't.
From such a bad beginning, and with the beautiful Carole Sheridan playing the
part of "the other woman" to the hilt, how could Jane ever hope to
make her marriage succeed?
CHAPTER I
It was the morning of Jane Roberts' twentieth birthday when
she was given the opportunity of taking what the majority of secretaries would
have considered the most exciting job in the business world - private secretary
to Sir Angus Hamilton, chairman and founder of the Hamilton Press, one of the
largest newspaper groups in the country.
But to Jane the offer was anything but a pleasure, for if
her six months' sojourn in the typists' pool had taught her one thing, it was
that being secretary to Sir Angus would not only give her more money but also
the likelihood of a nervous breakdown.
"Well," asked George Simmons, personnel manager
of the group, "how do you feel about it? It's a great honour
you know, being singled out like this. But I've been watching your work since
you did that rush job for me, and when I was told Miss Evans was
definitely too ill to return to Sir Angus again, I immediately thought of
you."
"Not immediately," Jane corrected, honesty
getting the better of discretion. "I believe Sir Angus has already tried
several of the girls from the typing pool."
"Only because he insisted on having someone in their
thirties," came the bland answer. "I gave
him your name at the beginning, but he thought you were too young."
"And now he doesn't?"
"Sir Angus hasn't been consulted," George Simmons
said testily. "If it had been left to me I would have chosen you in the
first place. But you know what Sir Angus is like... Come now, Miss Roberts,
you've nothing to lose by giving it a try."
"Except my head!"
He laughed. "You're not being asked to many the
chairman - though as a matter of fact you will be the sixth girl he's
tried."
"And Henry the Eighth didn't have a chance to behead his
sixth wife, did he?" murmured Jane, and then grinned. "Very well, Mr.
