The Fledgling

At Edmund Brooke's insistence, his ten-year-old daughter, Vitorina, leaves the closed world of her old and strait-laced great-aunts and their Portuguese mansion--complete with chapel--and journeys to a boarding school in England. Edmund readily accepts the offer of a golfing acquaintance to act as chaperone for Tory. Once on the train, however, Tory learns quite a bit more about Mr. Darlan, her traveling companion, than he would prefer. And so Tory is called up on to let down her facade of meekness and reveal her true nature: she is shrewd, imaginative and--as the situation calls for--brave. She is determined to outmaneuver this malicious mastermind, Darlan, and his French female accomplice who poses as his sister.