When her engagement was broken shortly before the wedding, Elizabeth was the first to admit the she was not unduly broken-hearted. Nevertheless she was glad to take the chance of getting way for a while, and took herself off for a Continental holiday. Her ‘cure’ was soon complete when, in romantic Luxembourg, she met Gervais St. Vire and accepted his family’s invitation to stay with them for a short time in their fairy-tale chateau- and in no time she had fallen in love with Gervase. But welcome as she had been as a visitor, it seemed that as a wife she would not meet with universal approval, for more than one sinister occurrence convinced Elizabeth that someone was prepared to go to any lengths to get rid of her. But who - and why"