The haughty Beverley family is obsessed with regaining Mannerling, the exquisite seventeenth-century mansion their now-deceased father gambled away. Three of the six Beverley daughters have failed to win back the estatesettling for love matches over Mannerling's heirs. Now it is Rachel's turn to woo the latest bachelor-in-residence, handsome widower Charles Blackwood. But her plan to win Charles almost comes to naught: Rachel forgets herself and admonishes Charles for neglecting his two small children. The antics of Beth and Mark Blackwood successfully throw the two together, but does Rachel love Charles for himself or for Mannerling?