Esmerelda Jones was very nice girl. It seemed to Esmerelda that she was also invisible to the opposite sex. Perhaps the real reason for this was the impaired foot that she had struggled with since childhood. When the brilliant surgeon Thimo Bamstra offered to cure her, Esmerelda was over the moon. Thimo also managed to mend her broken heart, Esmerelda had never imagined marriage as part of her future, but she could dream of little else.
