"I see a dark stranger entering your life violently..." the fortune teller told Tina who had spent her last shilling to look into the future. It seemed unlikely that such a prediction could come true in the circumstances, for Tina was kept well in the background by her handsome stepmother, Belle, to whom the combination of straitened circumstances and an unwanted stepdaughter did not appeal. When, however, Belle's rich, self made cousin in Cornwall offers them a temporary home it is the beginning of the gipsy's forecast. The dark Pentreaths with their pirate faces and their high handed ways are to influence the whole of Tina's quiet life, but they seem to her to be without affection or tenderness towards their women. Can Tremawvan, she wonders, that lonely refuge so indifferently offered, ever be thought of as home? Is there any place for her in a family whose forebears took what they wanted and never forgot a grudge?
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