About This Book
Trysting Mansion, is historic family Hampshire seat which has the family silver, which is just as historic as Trysting mansion;
Raymond Trysting, age 35, the present Lord Falcon. Raymond is an attractive young man with plenty of presence and an interesting past;
Auriol Trysting, Raymond's beautiful (and frustrating) sister whose prospects are fine (three rejected suitors in the background) but who can't seem to make up her mind;
Leigh Anderson, buoyant (and rich) Canadian "cousin" who doesn't want to fall in love with Auriol, since she can't cook anything but eggs.
These three young people try hard to solve each other's problems, but there is the complication of the aunts: Elvira (forgets things), Rosande (writes poetry), Dolly (sneezes). Oddly enough these crotchety and engaging members of various generations get along well and wackily.
A week at Trysting had its trials, Leigh thought. A round of odd jobs with Aunt Elvira, bad poetry with Aunt Rosande, and bouts of hay fever with Aunt Dolly were not his idea of a restful holiday. Nor did his cousin Raymond, who seemed sunk in gloom, help matters. Some mystery Leigh could not fathom about the burning down of the old house and the disappearance of the family silver troubled him strangely. But meanwhile there was a Hampshire summer, and there was Auriol. Auriol, Leigh thought, was lovely - but he didn't want to live on eggs. But there's never a let-down to the well-deserved and very happy ending.
