“Mom, how could you? After all, not even a year has passed since dad’s death!” - these were the first words of Lucia Mountford when her mother, left a widow after the sinking of the Titanic, remarried. Now their condition is melting before our eyes, and their mother’s illness is exacerbating an already deplorable situation. Frightened Lucia suddenly discovers that in order to pay off her debts, her stepfather not only gave her as a secretary to her neighbor, the womanizer Lord Winterton, but also promised him Lucia as his wife! Why is she increasingly attracted to Winterton, and not to the sedate and decent Edward de Radcliffe? When the wayward beauty Lady Shelley suddenly announces plans to become Lady Winterton, Lucia's jealousy tells her that she is in love! But the lord will mysteriously disappear...