When the last of her brothers and sisters was happily settled, Janet Hayes realised she must sell the rambling old house where they had all grown up together and find a new way of life.A friend put her in touch with young Dr Allan Playfair who lived in a small Somerset town and Janet gladly accepted the post he was offering as housekeeper.

Allan Playfair's house had character and charm and Janet found her new surroundings most congenial.But a chance meeting with an old boyfriend, Morris Farnham, now married to a wealthy woman, was to change all that.For Morris believed he was still in love with Janet - and he was prepared to stop at nothing to prove it...