When Elizabeth Fields, a spinster vicar's daughter, accompanies her shy friend Juliet to an eccentric relative's estate in the hopes of making her the heir to a fortune, she encounters a dashing rival, Major Roderick Shelton, who is promoting the interests of his own half-sister.
When Elizabeth Fields, a spinster vicar's daughter, accompanies her shy friend Juliet to an eccentric relative's estate in the hopes of making her the heir to a fortune, she encounters a dashing rival, Major Roderick Shelton, who is promoting the interests of his own half-sister.