A story of a child of an apparently wealthy family, who is enrolled with great ceremony at a local ladies' school. But the girl's wealth and standing are illusory, as the school discovers when term bills go unpaid and the girl's father proves to be nonexistent. The question of the girl's origins proves to be a stone thrown into a much larger Victorian pond. A local gentleman, Mr. Ellin, takes up the investigation, which leads him from the most posh...