content: Susanna Baird enjoyed traveling with her writer grandfather, Robert Debenham, but their trip to Malta was an exception.First her grandfather fakes illness to stay free at the house of the Marquis Ramiro St Vincent, Susanna labeled him a Ogre.Then she found he had a son, Minu(Lorenzo)who was crippled by a badly crushed foot.Susanna found her label for his father wasn't bad enough when she discovered Minu could have the foot fixed, but his father didn't want his child seeing people outside his home.The child had no friends, except two dogs, and a monk.Susanna soon befriends the child, and his lonely heart is captured by her sweet nature.Soon Susanna finds she is falling in love with the ogre and he tells her he wants nothing to do with it her love.Later Ramiro tells Susanna that he is going to marry another woman, a woman he doesn't love, who doesn't love him.Minu over hears this, and runs away.Ramiro comes to his senses at last and they all live happily ever after.