Charlotte Temple

As the girls of Madame Du Pont’s school leave church, a young officer sees a familiar face beneath a blue bonnet—and Charlotte Temple blushes. Three days later, he is back at the school gates, telling himself he should leave her alone.

In Sunday-afternoon Chichester, Lieutenant Montraville is bound for Portsmouth and the troops waiting to sail for America. Charlotte is still a schoolgirl, with little thought of the future; he, convinced he must soon depart, nonetheless seeks her company and slips her a letter. A French teacher’s help brings the two closer, while the warning he gives himself grows harder to heed. Behind Charlotte’s sheltered school life, another story unfolds in a prison room, where a father’s anxiety centers on his beloved daughter. How much can one secret meeting set in motion?

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