When sole survivor of an RAF bomber that crashes in the mountains of central France in the winter of 1941, former Oxford student Philip Lawless is rescued by two sisters, S verine and Th r se Chevalier who live in a remote farmhouse that was once a fortified outpost of the mediaeval Knights Hospitalers from whom the sisters' family is descended. Against orders, Lawless repays his debt by remaining to work on the farm and in time falls in love with...