**NOTE...NO PAGES MISSING HOWEVER A FEW PAGES MID WAY HAVE COME AWAY FROM THE SPINE...A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt, she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth, as just as quickly released. She meets Ferdinand a bitter war veteran.