Sybil, the protagonist, lives a life of ease with her father in an elegant townhouse with a river view, but they are still reeling from the loss of Sibyl's mother and sister on the Titanic. Now in her twenties, Sibyl had her coming-out several years earlier, but currently there are no suitors on the horizon. Ben, an old family friend who lost his first wife to illness, gets back in touch with the family, and Sibyl recalls her attraction to him years ago before he was married.
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