Lucy Snow is a young orphan who has neither money nor relatives. Still, she has an excellent education, a steady character, and enough adventurous spirit to travel across the continent on her own and find a good position as an English language teacher at a respectable boarding school for young ladies. That’s where, amid hard daily work and small-scale women’s intrigues, fate brings her together with two very different men—an Englishman named John and a Belgian named Paul. The first seems like the very model of calm British charm; the second is dark, sharp, and uneven. The first makes Lucy feel warm sympathy; the second brings an entire storm of conflicting feelings. But will one of them become her love and her destiny? Lucy doesn’t know yet…