A Tragic Tale of Young Love Lost. One summer's day in 1851, a 17-year-old Scottish girl, on holiday with her family in the German Rhineland, set off with her sketchbook, and disappeared - never to be seen again. Eleven years later, a ruined turret near to the inn where Idilia Drubb and her parents had been staying was dismantled by local builders. Amongst the rubble, they found the bone of a young girl and then, in the coping of the tower wall, a small gilt-edged diary, wedged into a gap in the mortar. This is the first time this diary, edited by Idilia's friend, has been published in English. An enchanting portrait of a youthful passion, with tragic inevitability.