Miss Cordelia Hamilton-King was tired of the frivolous life, and wanted - horrors! - to work. She refused her influential father's help, and became Miss Delia King, secretary, at Stanfield Hall in Norfolk. That one small deception caused havoc.

Captain Alexander Frankland, newly restored to his ancestral home after the war, had connections with the Hamilton-Kings that Delia, in her growing love for her employer, knew nothing about.....