Bonvivan i lovelas Uinfild Elliot, vikont Stiluell, – yavno ne iz tekh lyudey, kotorykh legko shokirovat' Odnako molodaya dama vo glave preuspevayushchey firmy, kotoroy on poruchil restavratsiyu svoyego postradavshego pri pozhare osobnyaka, – eto, pozhaluy, perekhodit vse granitsy Chto mozhet ponimat' zhenshchina v stroitel'stve? Osobenno – neotrazimaya krasavitsa vdova Miranda Garret, samoy prirodoy sozdannaya, po mneniyu Uinfilda, dlya drugikh zanyatiy? No postepenno nedovol'stvo vikonta smenyayetsya interesom k Mirande, interes perekhodit v pylkoye uvlecheniye, a uvlecheniye pererastayet v nastoyashchuyu, – pervuyu v yego polnoy priklyucheniy i intrizhek zhizni, – lyubov' No gotova li Miranda pozhertvovat' svoyey svobodoy i lyubimym delom radi skandal'nogo povesy?