If the young orphan Kistne had been told that the mysterious benefactor, Marquis Olchester, who rescued the girl from the poverty of a miserable orphanage and promised her protection and patronage, is simply trying to use her as a weapon in his fight against his sworn enemy—she would hardly have believed the slanderer.
And if a cynic, a rake, and a gambler like Olchester had been told that the innocent charm of Kistna—whom he at first saw only as a means to achieve his own goal—would conquer his heart with the power of true Feeling, he would have only laughed.
But love has its own laws. Real love comes uninvited!