Elliot Malvern, 7th Marquis of Ullenwood, is very content with his bachelor lifestyle and with spending his fortune on the pleasurable pursuits of gambling and mistresses. Rosamond Beaumarsh is determined to remain unmarried and independent. What, then, could persuade them to plunge into an adventure that carries them to postrevolutionary Paris and plunges them into a headlong flight across France? Together they embark upon a romantic adventure and learn that rational thought has very little to do with true love.