Casual and sometimes scattered homicide, this follows the footsteps of Hortense Clinton, involved in the murder of a man next door, as she retreats to a lodge in Nova Scotia. There- hoping to find anonymity- she is surrounded with the attentions of two omnipresent, inseparable boys, a dubious doctor, an insurance agent, a man she disliked, and as various attempts are made on her life and another dies in her stead, she is eventually saved by the apprehension of the killer... Inconsequential.