Synopses & Reviews
William Fitch Minstead, Sixth Earl of Ackerman, is shocked to learn that he has a nine-year old daughter from an old flame who passed away. The young girl's caretaker, Hilary Compton (a plain, but quick-witted and intelligent woman) fears that the Earl is going to take the young girl away, but is quickly relieved when he claims that she needs to stay in the only home she has ever known. When the Earl and Hilary decide to marry for the sake of the child and for convenience, they discover a love neither ever imagined...