Maud Lucie inherited a zest for life from her father. Ironically, it was her father's intervention which prevented Maud from marrying a romantic young poet. Eventually pressured into a disastrous marriage, she endured the passing years in her beloved Melbury Square with sorrow & resignation. But, alone in her twilight years, she meets a pair of younger people whose outrageous behavior provokes a flamboyant act by Maud