Professor Alexander van Zeust’s sister was ill, and her four young children needed caring for. He asked Beth Partridge -- kind, capable, sensible Beth -- to take charge of them for a week. She did such a splendid job one week extended to two, and then longer. . . . The children loved Beth, and their mother knew they were in good hands. Everyone was happy -- except Beth. She had fallen in love with her remote employer, and he wasn’t likely to reciprocate.