who was julian simpson? >> julian simpson appears in volume one.he met him on one of her trips to europe where her mother was trying to marry her off to european royalty. , handsomethis dashing captain who fought in world war i. they fell for each other. toeven hired a rolls-royce drive them to southampton. they were quoting poetry to each other on the way down. he came to america to visit her. her mother said, this man is just in the army. he doesn't have any money. you have to marry somebody rich. so he went home disappointed. but they corresponded for a while. they never saw each other until he came to america. she tried to see him during the war but he went back to europe during world war ii. i think he got into the spy business and he was in palestine for a while. up when she was working in california. somehow he found her and shhe was 50 years old. in her mind's eye, she was -- he was still a dashing captain. he had obviously become quite a drinker. she was deeply disappointed. unbeknownst to her, he had actually married somebody in australia