'Always love life' was the message Briony Stone's first sweetheart left withher before he was killed in an air crash. It seems strange that the samethought should be voiced by Robert Baker, the young vet whom she has knownsuch a short time, but to whom she is so unaccountably drawn. Briony, nowmarried to the snobbish, unimaginative Charles, realises too late that shehas disregarded her lover's advice, running away from life into marriagewith a man she likes and respects but doesn't love.