Ruby Ferguson

As the train carried her northward through the rugged Scottish hills, Cleo MacAlvey grew more and more apprehensive. Had she recovered from her love for Neil Garvine, the tall lean Scot, Laird and master of Larrich? Had America changed her? Could she resume her old place, or would she, after three years' absence, be left helpless and unwelcome among the scenes of her childhood? But when Strogue lay in a white bundle about the harbor far below her, and when the door of Kilchro, ancestral home of the MacAlveys swung open, Cleo knew she was home.

The Countess of Lochlule marries Sir Hector, owner of the estate next to 'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. But one day she meets someone on a park bench in Edinburgh. This novel is about dreams and the hard world of money and position and their relations to one another.