The frivolous handsome Jonathon Effington, Marquis of Helmsley, seduced many society ladies. For several years now, he has maintained an interesting tradition - at the Christmas ball he chose a woman and spent the entire next year with his chosen one. And then he parted without regret.

But this time everything went wrong. The lovely Fiona Fairchild, who became the object of his attention, quite unexpectedly invited him to enter into legal marriage with her...