Winter in Picardy, France, in 1870 and a group of German officers bivouack in a French chateau. Captain Max von Rosenheim is attracted to a portrait and when he returns wounded to the chateau, falls in love with the living image (daughter of the original subject). She is already engaged to her cousin and is a patriot - but love and the secret of her birth make all things possible. Well-written and constructed romance. (PB)