George Pennington is a magistrate who dominates the local gentry. His two sons are treated very differently. He swore he would never cane his son like his father did him, and Frederick, his eldest son, he never did. It was different with his second son Michael, who enlists in the Army, knowing he has deliberately withheld his inheritance from his grandfather. Frederick is engaged to a gentle girl, Diana Butterwick. When a new family comes...