
When her friend Sir Walter Pendennis calls, carrying his wife's crimson cloak over his arm, Susanna senses something terrible has happened. Sir Walter's wife Eleanor has been trampled by runaway horses, and her dying confession reveals that she has been involved in a plot to...

Susanna, Lady Appleton, is passing time with her new love, Nick Baldwin, in Hamburg when she is approached by her old friend Walter. Distraught over the discovery that his late wife, Eleanor, was conspiring in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen...