The valorous captain Robert Фоули, covered with wounds in fights war hero, is sure that not a single woman is able to fall in love him from scars and injuries, disfiguring his person and body. He is poor besides, because in childhood from intrigues of ill-wishers he was not confessed by the legal heir of the высокородного father. From a stepbrother Robert knows that a distant relative bequeathed all state to him, however, to enter into an inheritance, he will have to have a marriage. A beautiful woman Susanna, daughter of getting rich merchant, rejects love of poor captain. In despair he does offering to her friend - to the most imperceptible and bashful debutante of the London season, unaware that Дебора in love in him. Robert represses the being conceived in his soul feelings, preferring to hold the heart on a lock, until Дебору is not stolen by malefactors.