The independent beauty Alexa, as if in a cage, locked in the prim living rooms of the colonial high society in Ceylon, in a romantic impulse almost allowed herself to be seduced by an attractive stranger, and a few days later she discovered with horror that the unknown seducer was a local “socialite”, adventurer Nicholas de la Guerra! It’s in vain that Alexa tries to pretend that she didn’t recognize him; the highly experienced Nicholas is determined to continue the pleasant acquaintance...