Kim felt she was going to enjoy her new job - helping the delightful elderly Mrs. Faber to write her memoirs, in the luxurious surrondings of her lovely home, Merton Hall. It all seemed to good to be true. But of course there was a fly in the ointment - in the person of Mrs. Faber's son Gideon, who was coldly overbearing towards Kim. Her was suspicious of her innocent friendship with his bailiff Bob Duncan, even more suspicious of her very old friendship with Dr. Ralph Maltravers. But what business was Kim's private life of Gideon Faber's - when he had one of his own, in the person of Mrs. Monica Fleming!