Plot Summary:Jonathan Pierce has long lived happy on his glorious English country estate, despite fragile health, faithfully assisted by private secretary Ernest Murphy. His estate manager Stephen McDowell refuses to have a real affair with Joanathan's much younger wife and former nurse, Juliet. When city girl Christina Tolliver rents the cottage next to Stephen's, an almost instant crush results. Several of those characters and the local doctor are in for rough or pleasant surprises.