A tale of love and conflict in wartime England. Rilla Gray would never havemet Barney Wainwright if the outbreak of war in September 1939 hadn't seenhim posted to her home town. Ill-matched in background and worldliness,Rilla is dazzled by the attractive, young officer until a hasty marriagebased on necessity ends a charming interlude. Neither is prepared for theravages of war, the equally intense battlefield of their fateful marriagenor the gnawing lonliness of long separation.