Eleanor was delighted when the Portuguese Conde Ramiro Vicente Miguel de Castro offered her a job - as companion to his young sister, in the splendid Castro family home at Sintra. It was a chance that was not likely to come her way again, and she was looking forward to a pleasant summer - nothing more. But that was before she made the mistake of falling in love with her exalted employer. For, even if he should ever come to consider her worthy of his notice - which seemed highly unlikely - there was still that mystery about his late wife.