What kind of strange visitor appears one day in the office of the famous Amsterdam lawyer Cornelius Midvold? Why does the powerful banker Christian Van der Mey impose such an unexpected condition on the main character of the novel, Beatrix Robinson, by bequeathing to her the luxurious Vincem estate? And what should you do if your loved one offers only a fictitious marriage: refuse, or try to awaken a reciprocal feeling in a man?.. Charming, intelligent and passionate by nature, Beatrix manages to cope with many seemingly insoluble problems...