When the Marquess of Barham arrives in Sussex at the same house party, he is deeply in debt and has been banished from his ancestral home—and stubbornly refuses to do anything that might be considered remotely sensible. Juliette's prompt dismissal of the Marquess only piques his interest in her, and her refusal to consider him only complicates matters when it turns out he has a very practical answer to her problems—and his own.