When Daisy Holt was dismissed from her post as a nursemaid she set off cheerfully into the jungle of mid-Victorian London. When Kitty Hammond, proprietress of the ¿select establishment¿ off Leicester Square discovered her she was quick to realise that Daisy has a rare talent and would make a successful entertainer. And there it was that she met the impoverished artist John Skelton. To him Daisy represented the perfect model ¿ the one to inspire his work. But Daisy fell completely and hopelessly in love with him ¿ a love which was to launch her on a stormy career in which luxury, admiration and suffering were all to play a part¿