Above the Lattice

To Christine Helmsdale, working at Kinaird as receptionist for her father, "Young Doctor John", it seemed that no third person could ever share the happy communion of spirit which was theirs - until the night of the storm. Then, sweeping in on the crest of one of the worst floods the Western Highlands had ever known, came Huntley Treverson to confound all Christine's theories and confuse all her regulated thoughts. Trapped together in a shooting lodge, they spent a night in the hills, and from then onwards Christine's peaceful way of life was disrupted, her immunity to love torn asunder...