Dorrie Presley's half-childish love collapsed in an instant. She accidentally overheard her idol, twenty-two-year-old Dunk Ashby-Cross, complaining to his interlocutor that the undisguised interest in him of a fifteen-year-old girl put him in an awkward position.

Dorothy and Duncan were destined to meet again only ten years later. Guess, dear readers: which of them will take the first step towards reconciliation, towards a new relationship?