Love Without Wings

Justin Latimer had his own reasons for wanting to marry Barbie Carstairs. But love was not one of them. The love was all on Barbie's side. She was willing to clip love's wings for Justin's sake, but she found that still more was demanded of her — to save him, by her own self-sacrifice, first from making a terrible mistake, and then from betraying his true self and his vocation of healing. Here is a deeply moving story of a man whose very strength was his weakness and a girl who had only her love to guide her. Barbie Carstairs and Justin Latimer had been adopted as youngsters by Justin's uncle, Dandy, after their parents deaths. It seemed natural when Dandy died that Justin should want to protect Barbie by proposing marriage. Having once been jilted, Justin confessed he was marrying her out of fondness, unblinded by passion - a deliberate choice. Barbie failed to realize just how deliberate until she learned, too late, the terms of Dandy's will.