Based on "Glasses" "abnormally pretty" Flora Saunt fears that her fiancé, Lord Iffield, will not marry her if he discovers her secret.
In order to keep the country house he has just inherited, an impoverished and politically radical aristocrat marries the daughter of the businessman who holds the mortgage.
Based on "The Tone of Time" and " The Real Thing" When Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a generic portrait of an extremely handsome, distinguished man of not more than thirty, rivals for the love of the portrait's subject begins in earnest.
Adela Chart's widowed father announces his intention to marry the hated Mrs Churchley and her brother begins an affair that could derail his planned diplomatic career.
Shy Catherine Sloper seems set to blindly fall for the charms of an attractive young fortune hunter. However, there may be more to Catherine than meets the eye.
Based on "The Wings of a Dove". Egged on by his money-hungry fiancé, Robert Merton charms a severely ill heiress named Milly Theale as she nears death.
A literary scholar takes up lodging in an elderly woman's crumbling Venetian mansion to get his hands on valuable love letters written to her by a Romantic era poet.