Sir Charles Trevenning invites a fifteen-year-old orphan to leave the monastery and become a companion to his daughter, whose wedding has been postponed due to the death of her mother. The girl agrees, not knowing that her caring guardian is her father. She sees the future as bright and joyful, but there are difficult trials ahead, because the men who love and love her - her father and Fermor Holland - are not able to make her happy, bound by secular conventions.