It's wonderful when love seems to fall from the sky. It's wonderful when love comes unexpectedly. But... At first, there was no talk of love between Elinor Lyndon and the scandalous high-society ladies' man Charles Wycombe, Earl of Billinggon. The dry terms of a fictitious marriage-deal, very beneficial for both partners, were discussed. However, how long will “a marriage in which a man and a woman literally with all their strength restrain their burning, irresistible passion for each other become fictitious?..