Stella Hantleys promising career as a dancer had been shattered five years earlier by a friends cruel selfishness. But Stella had put regret behind her and changed careers. Now, in India as a nurse-companion to Miss Jellings, Stella felt that shed found real happiness at last because Roger Fendish was falling in love with her. And then, without warning, her friend Allegra come back into her life, threatening to destroy her happiness a second time.