Lady Caroline Fay meets Lord Vane Breccon, and is attracted to him. She finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit. She sets out to prove him innocent, and takes a position in his family castle as a companion to his mother.

Weary of her very public life in Paris, an aging courtesan takes her orphaned niece from her convent home and relocates to Monte Carlo to begin a new life.

When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose.

The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband.