Max du Veuzit 
Arlette and his shadow 

To avoid her father-in-law’s assiduity, Arlette Dalimours left her province to live alone in Paris. Faced with the inheritance of a very rich aunt on her wedding day – this is a clause in her original parent’s will – Arlette enters into a ‘white’ union with a man much older than her, in return for a pension she will pay him. Arlette thus became Mrs. Lussan, but her husband suddenly died a year later ‘for fun’ without the spouses having been able to see each other again.

When, later, Arlette meets a young man, Pierre, who loves her and whom she loves, she won’t dare admit to him the deceit of her marriage with Mr. Lussan. And this Pierre – she will soon learn – is none other than her first husband’s nephew….. Will he be her second husband? But there are tricks that cost their authors dearly….

About the author

Max du Veuzit est le nom de plume de Alphonsine Zéphirine Vavasseur, née au Petit-Quevilly le 29 octobre 1876 et morte à Bois-Colombes le 15 avril 1952. Elle est un écrivain de langue française, auteur de nombreux romans sentimentaux à grand succès.