Several years ago, the young Scot Rose unwittingly turned the famous London dandy and seducer Lord Elton Sinclair into a laughing stock. When Rose accepted Elton’s aunt’s invitation to stay at her estate, he decided that now Rose could not escape retribution. By that time, the young provincial girl had become a dazzling beauty, smart, and mocking. She easily ruins Sinclair's insidious plans for revenge. Very soon the hunting excitement of the rake is replaced by involuntary admiration, and admiration by love, ardent, irresistible, passionate...