The admiral James Hawke is retiring after more than thirty years serving the Crown. He and his wife Anne decide to purchase the Charlton estate in Somerset, near where they grow up as children. The Altons at the Highbury estate, a neighbor to the Charlton estate, made up of Edward, Baronet, the lady Victoria, wife, and Sofia, nine years of age, daughter, have their opinions when finding out an admiral will purchase the Charlton estate. "Do...