A young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as…

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and…