When Viscount Deaford is saddled with a Cherry Steane, a homeless waif, he turns to his childhood friend Henrietta to give the orphan a home. As he pursues Cherry's father and grandfather round the seedier fringes of society, Hetta wonders if he has at last fallen in love, and without the timely intervention of his scapegrace brother Simon, and Hetta's worthy suitor Gary Nethercott, Desford is in danger of making a rare bumblebroth of his affairs.
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