What can a beautiful daughter do, whose father carelessly lost the family estate at cards to the famous adventurer Lord Dougal MacLane? Either come to terms with impending poverty, or try to regain their fortune at any cost. The wayward Sophia McFarlin is not going to give up and invites Dougal to play with her. The stake in the game is her innocence. Sofia has no equal at the card table, but it so happened that she lost. Now she has to pay off the “debt of honor”, and Lord MacLane will make sure that the payment of this loss becomes the happiest event in the life of the woman who won her heart at first sight...