When bryony Thomas Tallis, 13 old age old and an aspirant author, see her older sis Cecilia and Robbie Nat Turner at the fountain in front end of the household estate she misinterpret what is happen therefore put into gesture a series of misinterpretation and a infantile pique that will have got permanent repercussion for all of them. Robbie is the son of a household retainer toward whom the household has ever be sort. They pay for his clip at Cambridge University and now he plan on travel to medical school. After the fountain incident, bryony read a missive intend for Cecilia and reason that Robbie is a pervert. When her first cousin Lola is rape, she state the police force that it was Robbie she saw perpetrate the deed of conveyance.