The brilliant Marquis of Melverley never lacked easy connections... but, returning from the Napoleonic Wars, he suddenly discovered that his mistress now intended to remain faithful to her husband, and his kept woman had found a new patron! It was urgent to find a new “lady of the heart”... and Why is the young and lovely orphan Christina, desperately in need of male protection, bad for this purpose? However, the innocent gullibility of the girl, childishly entrusting her fate into the hands of the marquis, unexpectedly awakens in him a completely different feeling - real, genuine, passionate love!..