Prabe #6

I read 90 minutes of Loving by Danielle Steel.
Bettina had just moved into Ivo's spare bedroom and they are spending a lot of time together going to the theater and to dinner. They become even closer than they had ever been.
Bettina finds her a job doing lighting in a theater. She wants to work in the theater because she someday wants to write a play. After she has worked at her job for a while, she tells Ivo it is time for her to move out and make it on her own. Ivo doesn't like the prospect of her leaving as they have become so close. After a discussion about her leaving Bettina and Ivo come to the conclusion that they are in love with each other and should be married despite the fact she is 19 and he 62. They are married.
Jump six years in their life and Ivo has retired as editor of the newspaper he ran and Bettina is now the assistant director of the same theater company. Their life seems to be going well in their lives until Bettina meets and actor named Anthony Pearce. He is from England and is only in the states on a work visa. Anthony is the lead actor in the play the company is producing. He and Bettina become fast friends and he wishes she were not married.
The theater company asks Bettina to go on the road with them for five months and although Ivo feels it will come between he and Bettina, he knows she needs to go.
Anthony and Bettina become closer and closer and they begin an affair. He tells her he loves her and wants to marry her even though he knows she is married. They continue the affair and return home after five months. Anthony wants Bettina to leave Ivo and she refuses. She returns home and Ivo tells her they are getting a divorce. He says she needs to be with somebody young and he will always love and provide for her. Despite her protests, Ivo goes through with the divorce.
Anthony is happy about the divorce and he wants to marry Bettina. She thinks he wants to marry her just so he won't have to go home. He tells her that if they love each other, it shouldn't matter that she has been divorced only a week. She finally gives in and Bettina becomes Mrs. Anthony Pearce.