Lady Georgiana Longborough has rejected a full-blooded life with her artist lover Augustus Hackett and instead has married the Scottish Lord Stranragh - who likes to address Georgiana was if she were a board meeting. Meanwhile down in Wiltshire, her fecund friend Jennifer's marriage to the Marquis of Pemberton seems in much better shape - except that Jennifer can never quite tell what 'Pember' is up to. A drink or two with the butler is one thing...