The Second Honeymoon

Jimmy Challoner arrives at the theatre expecting a kiss from the actress he adores. Instead, Cynthia hides a letter and asks whether he got it.

On a chilly London night, young Jimmy is certain he has found the great, sweeping love he has read about in plays. At Cynthia Farrow’s dressing-room door, though, her hurried welcome, a rival’s orchids and a letter she will not explain disturb his rosy certainty. Then, during the interval, a face from his boyhood appears in the stalls: Christine Wyatt, whom he has not seen for years. Jimmy’s heart may be devoted to Cynthia, but the world beneath the footlights is beginning to look less like a romance and more like a tangle. What does Cynthia’s letter say—and what place can the past claim in Jimmy’s future?

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