Alma skips out of boarding school, expecting to come home to a lonely but doting father. In fact she finds him rather cold, and there's a cousin knocking around who she doesn't like the look of.
Meanwhile in London, our hero has lost his girl and his cash and is destitute. He tries to throw himself into the Thames, but is disuaded by a Sally Army chick with a faraway look in her eyes. He hops in an empty freight truck to sleep the night and wakes up in Devon.
Soon afterwards he finds Alma asleep on the moor having run away Adela Quested-style from a traumatic incident which she can't remember. They marry. Lots of great cottage-window and garden-gate scenes with Geraniums much in evidence. Very Hepworth. BUT it turns out Alma's dad was killed the night she ran away, and she is the chief suspect in the ensuing tension-filled courtroom ending - lots of racing off to get vital witnesses to testify, and a jolly good unexpected twist at the end.
This is classic Hepworth, much enjoyed by this fan.
Meanwhile in London, our hero has lost his girl and his cash and is destitute. He tries to throw himself into the Thames, but is disuaded by a Sally Army chick with a faraway look in her eyes. He hops in an empty freight truck to sleep the night and wakes up in Devon.
Soon afterwards he finds Alma asleep on the moor having run away Adela Quested-style from a traumatic incident which she can't remember. They marry. Lots of great cottage-window and garden-gate scenes with Geraniums much in evidence. Very Hepworth. BUT it turns out Alma's dad was killed the night she ran away, and she is the chief suspect in the ensuing tension-filled courtroom ending - lots of racing off to get vital witnesses to testify, and a jolly good unexpected twist at the end.
This is classic Hepworth, much enjoyed by this fan.