Love Letters

Stationed in Italy during WWII, British officer Roger Morland gets his fellow officer, Alan Quinton, to write love letters to his casual girlfriend, Victoria Remington back home, as Roger doesn't have the wherewithal to do so himself. Based on Victoria's responses, Alan can tell that Victoria has fallen in love with Roger because of those letters, and in turn Alan, without admitting it to himself, has fallen in love with Victoria without even knowing what she looks like. On one of Roger's training missions back in England, Roger and Victoria get married which irks Alan because he knows she is not marrying who she thinks he is - he truly being beneath her in spirit - that person with who she has fallen in love being non-existent as an amalgam of Roger's physical being and Alan's emotional being. Alan's feelings are despite him being engaged himself, to Helen Wentworth, about who he does not feel the same in that he could never have written those love letters to her. Back in England himself on a medical discharge, Alan learns that Roger has died tragically, not in combat, but while he was at home. As such, Alan, with only Victoria's previous address in Longreach, Essex County in hand, subconsciously takes steps to locate her by living in an isolated house he inherited in Beltmarsh, also in Essex. What Alan discovers second-hand is that Victoria murdered Roger, although Alan believes he truly is the murderer, the weapon being those love letters. What he also later learns is that he had previously met Victoria at a party in London, she a young woman going by the name Singleton, who knows nothing of her Victoria past as she is suffering from amnesia, including remembering nothing about the trial when she was convicted or her one year incarceration. With all this knowledge, Alan truly falls in love with all that is Victoria/Singleton, and Singleton with him, the two who want to spend their lives together. Alan does however realize that if Singleton were ever to regain her memory of being Victoria, it would not only destroy their life together, but her entire being, especially in knowing his role in what happened in her previous life.