Sheila Hancock's mother, as well as her first husband, the actor Alec Ross, had also succumbed to the disease. John was the third member of her close family whom she had nursed through the illness ...

Ever since her mother's death, Sheila Hancock had been in possession of an old, sepia-tinted photograph of a painting of an unknown woman. Like many aspects of her family's past, Sheila knew few ...