Helen and Nicholas met on the day when she was making a difficult but only possible decision, and he was seething with rage, considering her a typical fortune hunter, ready to trample on the feelings of other people to achieve her own selfish goal. Mutual distrust and misunderstanding, heated disputes and quarrels confused the relationship of the novel's heroes. For a long time they could not realize that their actions were not driven by unbridled physical attraction, which manifested itself at the first meeting, but by something else...