The Man and the Moment

Book excerpt: "The Man and the Moment" by Elinor Glyn is about Michael, a good-looking aristocrat, who is trying to avoid marrying his mistress, a married woman who's about to become a widow and often jokes that he should marry someone else before his mistress becomes available. In comes a French-American tourist tumbling through a secret passage in his Scottish castle. Sabine is seventeen and very rich, but can't get her hands on her money until she's twenty-one or married. Hoping to solve each other's problems, their lives get mixed up in a comedic romantic drama of the ages.