Pretty, warm-hearted, and penniless, Lucy Meggett has been with her cousin Hubert at his Irish house of Clonough in the expectation that they will marry in due course. But the interference of Hubert's half-sister Lady O'Hara makes things turn out very differently. After that, Lucy's life takes her traveling the world, through two marriages, one for love; encounters with the Prince of Wales and his fast set; and caring for her twin brother's children;...