Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.

Simon Camish is a successful yet diffident lawyer, beset by problems and too busy to take note of quiet Rose Vassiliou across a dinner party table. But only a few years before, Rose had frequently been in the news, an heiress who turned her back on family money in a battle for her own principles; now she is a single parent in a decaying house, trying to raise her three children while her ex-husband takes legal action against her. When Simon finds himself drawn into her affairs, he will uncover the brave idealism that Rose still carries within her.