"THE LAIRD AND THE LADY" - 9TH CHAP -PART ONE "ALL FORLORN" A NOVEL BY JOAN MARSHALL GRANT ( 1949 )

Joan Marshall Grant wrote 7 books about her previous incarnations and this is her only fictional novel (published 1949) . A story about Marylda, an American millionaires travelling incognito to escape from fortune hunters. In a romantic French chateau she meets the Laird...they fall in love...they are summoned home to his Highland castle. Stories of haunted houses are legion : but this one, instead of retreating into materialism or indulging in flattering credulity, provides a provocative account of how a ghost began and how it ended. Surely a most vital consideration, for which of us is not in danger of joining their uneasy company.
The beginning :
PART 1 CHAPTER 9
"ALL FORLORN"
We met Marylda the lonely millionaires in chapter 1 and we met the laird, Rowan, now we are learnt the circumstances of their meeting....they have to make up a story for Honorine and Torbayon who works in the Chateau - and only have one car...not two.. They have to make up a story that matches... Marylda is annoyed that things are not progressing...

I have read the Autobiography of Joan Grants earlier years, up to the publication of Winged Pharaoh her first book. Her published far memory books and writings are below and i read a number of them:
Time out of Mind (1957) https://youtu.be/gylWKlVbLwM?si=uxTxtG-_ABGYuMql
Winged Pharaoh (1937) https://youtu.be/hAnqd4KOqq8?si=wUJaI2A3bRLYb_p7
Life as Carola (1939) https://youtu.be/vysIWrgbnTg?si=UMlXDb-hoXtVZ73S
Eyes of Horus (1942) https://youtu.be/lU6WqL8TuTw?si=XURn4ek9Dwjfffh4
Lord of the Horizon (1943) https://youtu.be/XCh67XujXWU?si=RQTcb11yBDW5zZP3
Scarlet Feather (1945) https://youtu.be/xkagyoSqSyg?si=5acEjBg2QlT1gPjx
Return to Elysium (1947) https://youtu.be/SNi1zerlxfk?si=pnLEK8kOw3Ckct8j
So Moses was born (1952) https://youtu.be/xwiETdSbI2g?si=AHCG9VGTFq4n8gLU
Fiction – The Land and the Lady 1949
By turns poetic, inspirational, down to earth, challenging, funny and wise. Joan Marshall Grant was never conventional, always to be relied on to think for herself and ever ready to help other people.
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