But Peri, devoted in truly slavish fashion to the handsome lord who rescued her from a miserable future, cannot bear the idea of him marrying the shrewish and self-centred Pamela. However, she is both mischievous and resourceful, and lays a plan to ruin the engagement, enlisting the help of Crispin's cousin, Jerome Harcourt. He willingly co-operates, having an eye to making Peri his mistress ... Will Crispin at last admit his own feelings, and save Peri once more?