A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary doctor gazes at the countryside, when the train grinds to a halt and his professional attention is demanded. A young woman. An apparent suicide. Who was she? What brought her to Cornwall? What drove her to kill herself? Or did she? - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Chapters
1 Volume 1 Chapter 1: In a Cornish Valley 51 min 2 Volume 1 Chapter 2: After the Inquest 39 min 3 Volume 1 Chapter 3: Joseph Distin 38 min 4 Volume 1 Chapter 4: Bothwell Declines to Answer 21 min 5 Volume 1 Chapter 5: People Will Talk 18 min 6 Volume 1 Chapter 6: A Clerical Warning 35 min 7 Volume 1 Chapter 7: A Rapid Conversion 23 min 8 Volume 1 Chapter 8: A Valuable Ally 13 min 9 Volume 1 Chapter 9: Fever Dreams 42 min 10 Volume 1 Chapter 10: 'Touch Lips and Part with Tears' 41 min 11 Volume 1 Chapter 11: A Fatal Love 34 min 12 Volume 2 Chapter 1: Léonie's Mission 42 min 13 Volume 2 Chapter 2: A Student of Men and Women 40 min 14 Volume 2 Chapter 3: Bothwell Begins to See his Way 47 min 15 Volume 2 Chapter 4: The Home of the Past 19 min 16 Volume 2 Chapter 5: A Face from the Grave 21 min 17 Volume 2 Chapter 6: Struck Down 37 min 18 Volume 2 Chapter 7: The General Receives a Summons 40 min 19 Volume 2 Chapter 8: Widowed and Free 40 min 20 Volume 2 Chapter 9: Two Women 13 min 21 Volume 2 Chapter 10: Roses on a Grave 36 min 22 Volume 3 Chapter 1: Wedding Garments 36 min 23 Volume 3 Chapter 2: Lady Valeria Fights Her Own Battle 33 min 24 Volume 3 Chapter 3: An Elopement on New Lines 36 min 25 Volume 3 Chapter 4: In the Land of Bohemia 19 min 26 Volume 3 Chapter 5: Reaping the Whirlwind 15 min 27 Volume 3 Chapter 6: How Such Things End 18 min 28 Volume 3 Chapter 7: One Who Must Remember 37 min 29 Volume 3 Chapter 8: The Last Link 33 min 30 Volume 3 Chapter 9: Waiting for his Doom 13 min 31 Volume 3 Chapter 10: 'Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven' 43 min 32 Volume 3 Chapter 11: 'Sweet is Death for Evermore' 12 min 33 Volume 3 Chapter 12: 'Who Knows Not Circe?' 19 min 34 Volume 3 Chapter 13: 'How Like a Winter Hath Thy Absence Been' 36 min
