The Day of the Butterfly — Norah Lofts

The stunning novel of a woman whose beauty was legendary and whose life was charmed -- until she fell in love

For the first time she knew a passion equal to her own!

Chestnut-haired Daisy saw her own past unfurling like one of Sir Charles' maps. Not step was ever consciously planned; being chosen by Lady Langton as a suitable nursemaid for Mrs. Westcott; getting sacked; drifting into Kitty Hammond's fashionable house of pleasure; dancing for her living; meeting Jack Skelton; loving Jack far more than he had ever loved her; marrying Sir Charles Overton whose embraces she merely endured.

But now all that had changed. Now there was Captain Hugo Stirling and he brought with him a love wonderful beyond all imagining. A love doomed to end too soon...