Madeline returns to England, to her father's house, where she has not been for four years. A discreet, well-mannered lady, a lady to the core. As if it wasn’t she who caused a huge scandal here, breaking off her engagement with a brilliant, promising groom who loved her and about whom she herself was crazy... But all this is behind her. The new Madeline knows how to control herself. And yet, at the very first meeting with her ex-fiancé, the heroine’s self-confidence disappeared like smoke...