Women have Hearts

Pretty young Kelda Lawrence arrived at Mrs. Gladwin's Seminary for Young Ladies when she was fifteen, coming from the orphanage where she was sent for three years after her father and mother were tragically killed in an earthquake travelling in Turkey.At the Seminary she makes a firm friend in the beautiful Yvette de Villon who, although also an orphan, is from a wealthy French extended family.One day Yvette comes to Kelda feeling tearful and distraught because she has been summoned to go and live with her English uncle.This, Kelda thinks, does not sound so bad until Yvette explains that her uncle is 'horrible' and worse still lives in Dakar in the French West African Colony of Senegal as a recluse in a huge mansion..When none of the school's Mistresses agree to accompany Yvette, to Kelda's amazement the Headmistress instructs her to go with her to Senegal and look after her until she can be handed over safely to her uncle in Dakar.And so...