Elvi was quite sure why she married Rodari Fortunato: she loved him. But she was not at all certain why he had married her, a quiet little English nurse whom he scarcely knew. Nevertheless, he had married her, and she ought to have been wildly happy with such a husband – an aristocratic Roman, rich, handsome and passionate, showering Elvi with all the material things she could ever want. But how could she, knowing that all the time Rodari was demanding – and getting – love from her, his own love was given to someone else? He had married Elvi on the rebound from the beautiful Camilla, who had married another man – and did that mean he had forgotten Camilla? Did it even mean that he was no longer seeing her? And how much longer could Elvi put up with the situation?