[3] American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue.

Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett, who falls in love with her and proposes marriage.

Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society.

The couple return to England, and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.

An additional difficulty reveals itself in the person of local schoolteacher Dot Harris, who has long had an eye on Peter for herself and is now consumed with jealousy and spite, going out of her way to cause trouble for Mamie at every opportunity.