Miss Georgiana Wickford, who has an aversion to physical intimacy with a man and therefore does not want to get married, has come up with what she thinks is a brilliant plan to avoid the inevitable - she needs to enter into a fictitious marriage! Her choice falls on Lord Ashenden, with whom she was very friendly in childhood. They spent ten long years apart, knowing nothing about each other. Edmund, despite his mother’s insistent entreaties, refuses on principle to marry and acquire heirs, which is his direct duty as a successor to the family. And yet, natural instinct and shared warm memories force young people to take a closer look at each other...