Hopeless Love Author:Ethel Lockwood She needed love and devotion . . . Joyce had always been the more sensible and dependable Loring sister, taking care of her younger sister Helen, the redheaded, volatile artist with a penchant for getting into trouble and a dependence on being rescued by Joyce. Now, Helen's trouble had reached the point where Joyce felt the only solution was pi... more »cking up stakes and leaving their home town, even though it meant leaving behind Hal Blake, the man Joyce loved, and her own dreams for the future. But Joyce felt certain she had to abandon these dreams and recognize them for what they were - only illusions, for Hal saw her only as an efficient secretary . . . and nothing more. It took a long separation from Hal and a new love for Joyce to make her realize how desperately she needed love and devotion.« less