Excitement comes to Ashmead, when Madam Maria Della Rossa and her daughter Bianca arrive for a prolonged stay at The Willow and the Rose. Madam is a world renowned opera singer. Alas, her memory has disappeared. She remembers nothing since a carriage accident in London a few months before. She knows herself as plain Mary Malone from a village very similar to Ashmead. Under the gentle care of Ashmead’s beloved physician, Paul Farley, memories surface. When they do, they stun both Mary and Paul.