This is Damaris and Rachel's story. Damaris, a former ballerina, has been gardening at the Abbey, with the stalwart help of Benedicta, while Rachel, Damaris's elder sister is the Abbey Guardian, responsible for showing visitors around, with a sideline in writing. Damaris has recently discovered that she is recovered enough, after what she thought was a career-ending injury, to consider returning to the stage and is in high alt about it when Brian, whose family know her, looks her up. Rachel has to fight her very natural feelings about giving her sister up to the London stage again. Brian is very taken by 'Pirouette' and finds himself being swept up by all her Abbey connections...