Lily Evans, a successful stage actress and breathtaking beauty, sits at her dressing table amid bouquets of lilies and roses, her silk dresses draped over a Chinese ebony screen. She gazes at a photograph of a handsome young uniformed man, wistfully tracing his features. Diana, her delightful three-year old daughter watches intently as her mother dabs a touch of carmine on her pale lips and pins a diamond brooch to her dress.