Yet this is only the beginning of the mystery. For although Lucy Sedgewick is eventually restored to her wealthy family, there is little talk of the events leading up to her disappearance and she has effectively blocked out her whereabouts of those few, crucial weeks. No news reaches her circle of the dead man she saw and she fears that she may have been responsible for a terrible crime. Furthermore, her husband Julian is also missing, and she remembers that hers was not a happy marriage, but surely she could not have been involved in his disappearance too.
Or could she?