Where, tell me, should Alasdair Kinster, an unmarried aristocrat, tired of being a target for the capital's brides and their determined mothers, run?! Of course, to the province! However, it is in remote Devonshire that his fate awaits him. And her name is Phyllida Tallent. This witty, ironic, indecently independent person stubbornly wants to remain an old maid! But is the lovely young woman really ready to prefer the melancholy of loneliness to the happiness of shared passion and the bliss of true love? Alasdair is confident that he will be able to make Phyllida change her mind! How? But this is worth thinking about...