A Little Badness

Rita Blackthorn's heart was barren and hard. In all of her life she had never truly loved. She hated now, so deeply she could almost taste it. Beneath the loving gaze of her daughter's soft green eyes, her heart swelled with dark and dangerous emotions.

Young Cathy Blackthorn has never experienced any loving response from her mother; it is her beloved aunt Margaret, who has been more of a mother to her.

When her father Frank Blackthorn brings home a London street urchin and announces him as the son he and Rita never had, Cathy despairs of ever winning her parents' love.

But Cathy is a generous soul and tries to give the young lad a chance to prove himself - one way or the other - but something about him makes her uneasy...