It is four years since Geraldine Wyllie's beloved husband, Laurence, died. He had gradually weakened over the years, due to injuries sustained in the First World War. Since his death, Geraldine had drawn closer to his parents, and she had been kept busy with her three children and with the work of the Kinloch Trust. During the difficult years of the Second World War, two men fall in love with the actor Richard Ransome, a childhood friend; and Alex Kinloch, Laurence's surgeon...