In 1960, a missionary is killed in Haiti. What was his connection to the May of Teck Club, a hostel for unmarried women which burned down in 1945?
Now at the beginnings of middle-age, the "girls of slender means" think back on their friendship with Nicholas and wonder how he ended up as a missionary.
Celebrating the end of World War II in central London, Nicholas saw something which changed his entire life - but what was it?