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Prudence is timid and conventional, whose horizons have been limited to her job as a bank clerk in Croydon until the war provides her with new experiences.<\/p>\n
Rosalind, a stunning, red-haired actress, catches the attention of Frances’s conservative elder brother, the heir to an ancestral mansion.<\/p>\n
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