Spring Love Author:Florence Stuart Voice of Experience. Mary Parker was grateful to the family that had taken her out of an orphanage when she was a little girl and given her a home. but it was not gratitude as much as love for her handsome, vain and irresponsible foster brother, Roger, that made her always sacrifice her own interests for theirs. Then writer Neil Blake came to to... more »wn and gravitated quite naturally to Marys little bookshop and pretty Mary. The victim of a selfish love himself, Neil tried to show her that she was wasting her affection on a man who didn't deserve it. When Mary asked him . . . reluctantly . . . if he would use his influence to help roger get a screen test, he refused . . . only to change his mind when he saw it might be the only way to stop her from making a marriage he knew could only mean regret and years of misery. . .« less