What happens when a young man and a young woman, each bitterly distrustfulof the opposite sex, not only meet but find themselves sharing the samecountry house? At first Luisa, returning home from abroad, finds herselfhating Martyn Saunders, a young vet injured in the World War II. Martynbecomes engaged to Luisa's best friend, and too late he and Luisa discovertheir love for one another. First loyalty, then an accident, contrive tokeep them apart, and when reconciliation seems likely, another woman fromMartyn's past interferes, until love at last finds a solution to all theirproblems.