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When, early in the War, Lewis Alison is imprisoned with other captive English officers in the Dutch fortress Wierickerschans he, unlike his fellows, welcomes incarceration. In this enforced retreat he will be able to lead a long-desired contemplative life, work uninterruptedly on his history of English 17th Century Contemplative Livers. The other officers agitate escape, burrow tunnels while he burrows in his books. Against his better contemplation he joins the others in trying to escape. They are foiled, but escape is thrust upon him from an unexpected direction...
...nearby castle of Enkendaal lives wealthy Landowner Baron van Leyden, whose stepdaughter, Julie, Alison wed to tutor in England...
...Baron interests himself in Alison and his friend Ballater, pedrsuades them to leave the fortress on parole, live in a cottage on the baronial estate. In the ancient van Leyden Library Alison can pursue his studies undisturbed. But beautiful Julie, now married to a German, von Norwitz, off fighting in the War, soon disturbs his contemplations. She is restive and Alison soon becomes so. There is more philosophy in her glowing eyes then in all this books, more in her sudden kiss than he supposed all life could contain...
Aghast at the implications of that kiss, Julie send Alison away...
...life at Enkendal is no longer possible without him: he returns. In the tower over the library are her rooms. There, by means of a secret stairway, Alison climbs night after night. Their love has long been consummated when von Norwitz returns from the war, a hopeless invalid...