Well, well! How could this happen? Baron Sedgwick, living on his estate, suddenly begins to receive huge bills from London, signed by Emmeline Sedgwick, his... wife. But this cannot be. He invented a wife for himself to get rid of the endless persecution of mothers with marriageable daughters; there is no Emmeline! We urgently need to go to London and sort out this strange story there. Who is she, this Emmeline? And what does meeting her promise?