Not only has the beautiful eighteen year old Bettina Charlwood lost her beloved mother but is made all but destitute by her father's constant gambling and she has to leave the French school as her deceased Godmother had financed her fees. Now death strikes once more as her chaperone dies on the ferry from Calais to Dover in a wild storm. And Bettina, not knowing what to do, is saved by an earnest young gentleman whose name is Lord Eustace Veston.Arriving...