The Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia, where the primitive still exists alongside the ultra-modern, and fabulous natural beauty alongside industrialization, forms the background to the story of Morny Blake and Grant Randall.
Morny was a young schoolteacher, Grant head of an important mining syndicate. He was used to managing people and things, and assumed that he could manage Morny too.
But she instinctively resisted his too hasty domination, for a woman likes to be mastered only when she can feel that she is also loved - and Morny was all to certain that Grant had given his love elsewhere.