Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.

Portrait painter James Mallory meets the beautiful Flora through his friend Mrs. Meldrum and asks to paint her; he discovers that something is not quite right about Flora when she grows angry for no reason during the sitting.

Mr. Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate; he will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter; the enchanting Grace has other ideas.

Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a portrait of the ideal man; James Mallory turns her down, but knows just the artist, Mary Tredick.

Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, works to prevent her father from re-marrying and her brother from a scheming music hall artist.

A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter.