The ladies of Cuddleton begin faking illness to attract the young new doctor, little realizing that he is married.

When war is declared between the United States and Europe, Lieutenant Wentworth accepts a hazardous air-scout commission.

Mr. Burton spends six years abroad leaving his daughters behind. He returns with a new wife but has forgotten that the girls have grown up and might not want a new mother.

Lucie falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.

Lillian’s parents and her wealthy young beau test to see just how well she could endure poverty.