It's the last chapter - yippee! It's hard to remember that this book is 25 years old - but even in other times, Jake's attitudes would have been disturbing. Jake leaves Annis at her parents' house while he goes overseas, and doesn't tell her where he is going or when he'll be back. So when Annis decides to chase him down to tell him she loves him, she has to find out his whereabouts from his secretary (who, natch, is surprised that Annis doesn't know). So Annis flies off to Naples, tells Jake that she loves him and finds out that (of course) he's in love with her, and they decide to have a proper honeymoon in Naples.
I don't think I'll be this happy to see chapter 9 in every Betts. This is one of my least favorites, because Annis is more of a doormat than usual - well, she's probably average on that score, but he walks all over her more often.
I'm done! This is, by the way, the marriage of convenience plot. It's slightly unusual - Annis flying off to Naples is atypical, as is Jake being a businessman and not a doctor, but Betts couldn't write exactly the same book over and over again, could she?
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