Lady Eleanor Albright has left her, ‘brothel-loving, girl-seducing, entitlement-inflated husband with whom she can’t believe she ever had sex, ’ and is-again- living with her Irish mother, Lady Adele Darnley. With her daughter’s marital woes unacceptable, Lady Adele schemes to end Eleanor’s problems one of which is her daughter’s attachment to a man seven years her junior, a barrister, Lord Henry Faraday. To add insult to injury, Henry has included Eleanor, as an expert chemist (and purveyor of women’s creams), in the death of the sanctimonious Baron of Tweedmouth. To help her friend, the cherubic Baron’s son, Eleanor must defy family, society, even the man she loves. Louis may well have cracked under the pressure of his harsh, bullying father.