The decayed gentlewoman, they called her as children An unregarded painting badly in need of cleaning Later it vanished, but before that Ginny and her mother had stopped coming to stay at Ardachoil Colin never knew why Now, suddenly, both the decayed gentlewoman and Ginny had reentered his life An urgent station announcement at King's Cross, an oddly frantic 'phone call and Dr Colin Lokie, childhood emotions vividly re-awakened, found himself drawn into a maze of suspicions, theft, legal complexities and finally murder