The rapidly flaring love of a young American woman for a Spanish businessman ends quite dramatically: he drives the girl out of his house. The noble lord experiences a natural feeling of contempt for women who are ready to enter into an intimate relationship for the sake of material gain. But the young lady entrusted the burning handsome man with her maiden honor, being filled with a sincere feeling of love. How can I prove this to him? The heroes of the novel manage to unravel the tangle of mutual suspicions and third-party intrigues only five years after their first meeting.