Charles and Veronica are an ideally happy young married couple ligin inLagos where Chalres has his job. When the gathering war-clouds in 1939 forceCharles to sent Veronica to England, she is almost broken hearted: with thenews six months later than Charles has been drowned on his way home.Veronica's cadier grief is intensified almost to insanity. Is is only shedevoted care of Boyd, who has fallen in love with her, that restores her sohealth. After two years, she an Hoyd are married and have a son. ThenCharles turns up again, from the dead, re-awakening in Veronica thedesperate passion she had always felt for him. How Veronica finds herhappiness, in spite of inescapable cinscunstance, is told with great seilland sincerity in this poisating story of a devotedly passionate love.