The whole London world understood: someday the escapades of the charming rake and reveler Hayden Milton, Earl of Westfield, would end badly. And so it happened: wounded by a shot from an abandoned jealous woman, the count rests on his estate and is bored... until his attention is attracted by the lovely new nurse, Sophia Camden. Sophia, absorbed in an unusual dream for a 19th-century girl - to become a doctor, pays little attention to the courtship of her noble patient. And then the insidious tempter offers her a dangerous bet: if in ten days she proves to him her calling for medicine, he will help her. And if not, she will become the count’s mistress, which, according to Hayden, is a much more enviable lot for a young beauty. The game begins...