Two love stories so different in plot are distinguished by the author's deep penetration into the psychology of the characters, a subtle and emotional description of their feelings and passions, complex everyday collisions.* * *EXPERIENCE OF IMAGINATIONThe successful publisher Sylvester Wykes caught a glimpse of Julia Piper from a train window, and the image of a young a pretty woman, so different from the bourgeois wife who abandoned him, was deeply imprinted in his consciousness. Julia, who experienced an unsuccessful marriage, and then real grief - the death of her son, withdrew into herself and isolated herself from people. By coincidence, she gets a job as a visiting maid in Sylvester's house. And he, leaving her notes with instructions in the morning, does not suspect that his new servant is the very woman whom he cannot forget. One day he finds her sleeping in his house... REASONABLE LIFEResort town in the south of France. The main character of the novel, the young beauty Flora Trevelyan, meets three young people who came on vacation - two Englishmen and a Dutchman. Their attention flatters the girl so much that she falls in love... with all three of them. Whom to prefer? Flora will need to go through many trials, years of war and adversity, disappointment and loss, before she makes her difficult choice.