Bessie and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she is set on marrying him. 

A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter. 

Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, must work to 'save' her father from re-marrying and her brother from a scheming music hall artiste. 

Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man. James Mallory turn her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick. 

Mr. Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas. 

A vain and self-centred girl tries to hide the truth. Based on the short story "Glasses". 

Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.