Twenty-two-year-old Nellie lives with her younger sister and brother in the country. Both parents are dead, and their charming, spendthrift father, a viscount, has left them very little. When Nellie inherits her great-aunt's London house, she decides that the family can afford a season in London. She plans to meet members of the ton by selling them Maltese terriers, and this is how she meets the Earl. The younger sister, of very small brain, falls into many scrapes and is nearly ruined. ( )