Julie Alnaker was rich, young, and lovely. She and Toby Grant, who recently qualified at the Central, had been childhood sweethearts, grown up together. But now Julie was engaged to Rupert Ferris, an eligible architect of whom even Julie's mother approved. Julie injured four days before her wedding in a riding accident and with Toby being on call was the first doctor to reach her and the first to realise that Julie might never walk again.