The daughter of a Chicago oil executive , she was a teenager when her parents had divorced , her mother moving to Europe .
One evening , December 1939 in Paris , Maclean met Melinda Marling .
The daughter of a Chicago oil executive , she was a teenager when her parents had divorced , Melinda Marling 's mother moving to Europe .
One evening , December 1939 in Paris , Maclean met Melinda Marling .