The Earl of Wycombe sent his daughter Lady Percy Brooke to her aunt in India so that society would forget about the scandalous incident. A year ago, a girl ran away from home with handsome Steve Doyle, whom she became interested in because he looked like Alice Lyndon - her first love! But Steve turned out to be an unworthy person. Fortunately, the father caught up with the fugitives before the irreparable happened. The Count was not given to know that his daughter had already been in a man’s arms when she was only sixteen! And this man was Alice Lyndon. Percy is sailing on a ship home to England, and Alice is among the passengers. He's handsome, brave, smart, charming and openly seduces Percy! The girl very soon realizes: her lover does not remember what happened between them eight years ago, on the night after which he disappeared from her life...