Sir Max Fitzarren, the dashing and disreputable nobleman, had betrayed the love of her dear friend Clementine, so the beautiful Lady Leonora Pagett conceived a scheme to win his heart and break it in revenge. And if the man she really loved grew angry and even jealous so much the better! But at disguise and deception Leonora is an amateur, and others more practiced at deceiving are waiting to catch her in a web of their own weaving.