After
the hurly-burly of the big London hospital where she had been working, Judith
found it a very pleasant change to be offered a private job looking after a
charming patient, Lady Cresswell, in the Lake District. Her patient gave her no
trouble at all--which was more than could be said for her son, the disagreeable
Professor Charles Cresswell. He seemed to have taken a dislike to Judith on
sight--a dislike which, it must be confessed, Judith returned with interest.
And now he was turning up to spoil their pleasant holiday in Portugal.

