Twenty-five year old Frances Field wanted desperately to get away from her guardians' dull London townhouse. Unforeseen circumstances finally gave her the chance to escape. She decided for the first time in her life to go off on her own, to a quiet fishing village in Scotland. There she is drawn to the sophisticated, dazzling world of army men and their wives, and finds herself falling in love with one especially charming young officer...whose affections are elsewhere engaged.