It's very very early in the morning at the family home in Seacliffe, San Francisco, and grim anxiety hangs over the library where Father Barbour sits with Nicholas and Claudia Lacey awaiting for some word from Paul, anything which will give some inkling of what has become of sixteen year old Joan, and her young friend, Ken Arthur. All of the rest of the family are at the sky ranch and they're unaware that Joan went riding last night and didn't return...