A beautiful tale of unrequited love, In the Cage is a miniature masterpiece depicting - as in the great novels of Henry James - a moral consciousness torn between emotional impulses and the demands of society. Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As she memorises the messages he telegraphs, she becomes increasingly attracted to the life described to her, fixated by scandal and gossip a world away from her more ordinary existence...