For many years, Neville Wyatt, Earl of Kilburn, dreamed of a new meeting with the only woman he truly loved. With the woman he married literally after the first night of love. With the woman whom the war had taken from him - seemingly forever... For many years, the beautiful Lily dreamed of not only finding her husband, but again winning his heart, appearing to him no longer as a beggar stranger, but as a brilliant lady, a worthy wife of a socialite, mistress of a London salon. The day that lovers have dreamed of for so long has arrived. But will they now, after so many years, be able to revive the love that flared up at the hour of their first meeting?