The young Englishwoman Cassandra is experiencing her first girlish love for Edward, not knowing that Anthony has long been burning with passion for her, a magnificent black-haired man much older than her. Since childhood, Cassandra has become accustomed to considering this socialite only a friend of her father, he is all this time tried in vain to fight his own heart. On the eve of the wedding of Cassandra and Edward, Anthony realizes that life without his beloved will be meaningless for him, and kidnaps the girl, deciding to win her love at all costs.