"If I meet any dragons I\'ll run away." When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War, she brings with her jewels belonging to the ill-fated Romanoffs, including a famous emerald, the Eye of Nero.
What has become of the now missing jewels? Has she hidden them somewhere, or entrusted them to someone before her death.
Mary dies of pneumonia a few days after reaching England, in a room over her brother\'s antique shop. "If I meet any dragons I\'ll run away." When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War, she brings with her jewels belonging to the ill-fated Romanoffs, including a famous emerald, the Eye of Nero