Rosa Lusignan, lovely and thoughtless, marries Christopher Staines, a clever young London physician. Her extravagance and tight-laced vanity strain their finances, and when Staines sails abroad to repair them and is reported lost, Rosa must grow up fast. Part of the story takes place in South Africa.
A brisk, melodramatic domestic novel by the author of The Cloister and the Hearth. Download the free EPUB.