Vis­count Rex­ley must mar­ry to save the fam­i­ly name and for­tune, but fate throws reck­less La­dy Pa­tience in­to his path dur­ing a du­el of hon­or.

La­dy Pa­tience re­turns to Lon­don and the scene of her hu­mil­i­a­tion three years be­fore to help guide her younger cousins through their first Sea­son, but first she must pre­vent her child­hood friend from get­ting killed when she can­not per­suade him not to keep his dawn ap­point­ment.

Even dis­guised as a young buck, Pa­tience’s friend rec­og­nizes her. He drops his pis­tol and it goes off. Both are stunned when the an­swer­ing re­port of a pis­tol be­ing fired echoes through the morn­ing mist…

But the bul­let finds the wrong tar­get… Rex­ley ac­ci­den­tal­ly shoots Pa­tience…