Introduction -- To hell and back (the present) -- Gisele d'Estoc and World War II (the 1930s) -- A storm in a teacup and a bomb in a flowerpot (the 1890s) -- An interlude (no time in particular) -- Gisele d'Estoc when she was real (the 1870s) -- Gisele d'Estoc and who she wasn't (the 1960s) -- Afterword -- Chronology