![]() ![]() Then Mompesson is shot in his bedroom and Leonora disappears. ![]() Leonora gently rebuffs Franklin's attempt to protect her from Mompesson. ![]() While the grief-stricken Powerstock stays in seclusion, his second wife Olivia, a classic femme fatale, is being serviced by an equally classic cad, the American Ralph Mompesson, who has designs not only on Olivia, and on Hallows' pregnant widow Leonora, but on Meongate itself. There is a brief, effective evocation of the front lines Hallows is killed and Franklin invalided home, sent to Meongate for R & R. There is a long, fussy frame, narrated by a variety of characters, but the main action takes place in the summer and fall of 1916 at Meongate, Lord Powerstock's Hampshire estate, and is narrated by Lieutenant Franklin, a battlefield friend of Captain John Hallows, Powerstock's son. As a successor to Past Caring (1986), Goddard offers an artful WW I English country-house melodrama featuring an unsolved murder. ![]()
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