In the Barbour family home at Seacliff at 7 o'clock on a brisk November morning, the downstairs lights are all ablaze. Father Barbour - alarmed last evening with Fanny's unexpected illness, has spent a sleepless night. When she became ill at dinnertime, he sent for Paul who was dining with the new neighbours, Rexford Frome and his attractive sister Christine Abbott, and though Fanny recovered quickly refusing to allow her family to send for the doctor, Henry was not at all reassured about her...