A Last Romance

After Sheila Prowser, a married pediatrician, had breast cancer, and surgery, she felt she needed a challenge and went to practice in Calabar, Nigeria. There she worked with another American doctor, Burke Caldwell, a handsome eccentric who made many outrageously backward comments in contrast to her own liberal convictions. In spite of this she found herself falling in love with him. After two more assignments in Madagascar and Bangladesh she separated from her husband. When she met Burke again at a New York medical conference they worked out their misconceptions of each other, and following Sheila’s divorce, settled happily in Hawaii.