Lucy Honey Church una joven inglesa de buena familia, se encuentra de viaje en Florencia, acompañada por su prima y dama de compañía Charlotte Bartlett. En la pensión donde se hospedan conocen al excéntrico señor Emerson y a su hijo George, que, amablemente, les ceden sus habitaciones para que las damas disfruten de una ventana con vistas a la ciudad.
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
