Sir Nigel Anstruthers comes to New York in search of an heiress as he no longer has enough money to keep up his estate Stornham Court He marries the pretty and cosseted Rosalie Vanderpoel the daughter of an American millionaire But on their return to England Nigel and his mother control and isolate Rosalie from her family Many years later Rosalies now-grown up sister Bettina who has spent a decade wondering why Rosy has lost contact with the fami...