1867: Nicola Douglas attends a lecture given by Miss Maria Rye the founder of the Female Middle Clas..

Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at her family’s château for her father the Marquis de Valai..

They were best friends who never meant to fall in love - but for one of them it was already too late..

On a cold December day in 1955 I got on a train to go back home for Christmas. This is the story of ..