Beatrice Harrod is one of several daughters of the Harrods family and is living a very comfortable life at the end of the Victorian era.
However, she is not yet married and is getting to an age where this is a little worrying.
She has been stuck in the Devon countryside for some years and is now in rural Sussex with her family.
Her head is turned by a dashing young man in uniform and all her troubles follow this.
This true story takes...