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Young Isabella Chartres would fit the definition of a mysterious Slavic soul if she were not an English aristocrat. On the eve of her wedding to her young and handsome cousin Rapert St Louis, she elopes with the ugly commoner John Gabriel, who refuses to give up his newly won seat in the British Parliament.

Is it really such a great love that brought these people together? No, the motivation of the characters is somewhat different. Not only the desire for wealth and high social status can be the driving force behind a person's actions. Sometimes the obsession with hatred and the desire to humiliate are much stronger. As well as an unconscious desire to deviate from the eternal path that was destined before birth.

After all, the motivation of human actions, sometimes incomprehensible and unpredictable, is perhaps the main theme of Mary Westmacott's novel A Moment of Rose and a Moment of Yew.