Amanda is nineteen years old, very beautiful, very wealthy, orphaned and half-Bengali. She moves from Calcutta to London to live with her uncle, but he is prejudiced against her Indian appearance and her Indian servants. And when she is abandoned at a country inn by a fortune hunter, he disowns her. The innkeeper doesn't know what to do with his distressed foreign lady guest, so he appeals for help from his landlord, the Earl of Twyford...