Gay Courage — Emilie Loring

A MOMENT OF MADNESS...

The tea leaves had said beware of a pirate. And now she was driving away from the masquerade with a handsome, masked buccaneer.

Why not? It was a lovely moonlit night. Perhaps she had been too unbending as a preacher's daughter. She knew that as she had danced with him a new feeling had come over her...Perhaps that was what really mattered in life. Just this once, she would give way to her feelings, to the awakened passion within her....

And then he spoke to her. As they sped through the night, she was suddenly aware he was not the person she had assumed him to be...

Geoffrey Hilliard returns to his home after years of travel and of rather aimless drifting to find his father's business declining through treachery.