In the French country town of St. Valoise-sur-Seine, Pierre Clicquot is the local undertaker. But 1926 was not a good year for the worthy Clicquot, and his efforts to remedy this regrettable circumstance do not work out as he anticipates.

Edward Whiteley has a unique solution to the problems of getting married. For marriage entails only one wife, whereas Edward's idea... But then in Edwardian days things were different.