Before meeting Lady Rhiannon, the daughter of the Prince of Wales, Lord Simon de Vipont was a self-confident young man who did not know refusal from women, and did not think about his own family: marriage was not part of his plans. However, the beautiful Rhiannon - a girl in whose family women loved, but did not marry - even with the blessing of her father, you cannot get a wife, you can only win her heart. She herself will run away from love, as if from a dangerous disease, until she feels that life with her beloved gives happiness, before which all her fears and concerns fade away...