To avoid the dishonor of a forced marriage with an elderly fortune hunter, and also a peer of her father, Catherine Pelliston leaves for London, where she plans to work as a teacher. Despite her deliberately stern appearance, the girl was kidnapped, drugged and imprisoned in a brothel. There, the handsome Lord Rand, returning from the war against Napoleon and carried away by the last feasts before submitting to the prescribed rules of the London season, became interested in a girl so different from the brothel inhabitant. Against the familiar backdrop of high life, the two main characters, similar in their stubbornness, delusions and inappropriate manners, are charmingly busy overcoming the obstacles to their predictable union.