Laurel was only too pleased to give up schoolteaching in grey, cold England for a while and go out to spend an extended holiday with her brother on the little island of Ladrana, off Portuguese East Africa. She arrived on the island, however, to discover that nearly everyone there, her brother included, seemed bent on arranging a marriage for her - with, of all the unlikely people, Landrana's forbidding overlord, Stephen Barrington! The whole thing was the more ridiculous as both the people concerned, Laurel and Stephen, had not the slightest interest in the project - not, that is, until Stephen's former love, the glamorous Roberta Fransom, turned up, and Laurel had to acknowledge her true feelings, The dignified thing to do seemed to be to retreat, leaving Roberta in triumphant possession - but Laurel was made of sterner stuff .. .