S zheleznodorozhnym magnatom Tomom Severinom, odnim iz bogateyshih i vliyatelneyshih lyudey Anglii, sochla by za chest porodnitsya lyubaya ari-stokraticheskaya semya. No devushka, kotoraya nuzhna emu, - prekrasnaya gordyachka Kassandra, ledi Reyvenel - uporno otvergaet vse ego uhazhivaniya. Ey nuzhny nezhnost i romantika - to edinstvennoe, na chto prizemlennyy pro-myshlennik Tom prosto ne sposoben. No kogda Kassandra okazyvaetsya nevinnoy zhertvoy gryaznogo skandala, Tom ponimaet: nastal ego chas. Pripertaya k stene obstoyatelstvami, devushka ne mozhet skazat «net» dzhentlmenu, spasayuschemu ee reputatsiyu. Odnako mister Severin rano torzhestvuet. On ne ponimaet glavnogo: zhenitsya na Kassandre esche ne znachit zapoluchit ee. Borba za ee serdtse tolko nachinaetsya, i ona ne budet legkoy!..