ItÕs difficult to imagine the extraordinary threads that somehow brought Annelise and Leslie together, each with such different backgrounds (the princess and the pauper), and escaping from and surviving their different torments Ð Annelise as a Jewess in Nazi Germany and Leslie after the sudden death of his first wife Betsy and their baby.
Their hesitant combative months of courting and flirting did however luckily win through.