Threatened with being cut off by his father, womaniser Maxwell Stark is forced to marry and he chooses the woman he secretly loves, Lucy Steed, his family's ward.Lucy has been desperately in love with Max ever since she first moved in with the Stark family, but she's convinced that he only loves her as a friend.Although both are too afraid to admit their true feelings, the marriage is a happy one, until Max's spurned mistress, Marie, decides that if she can't have Max, then no one can.They say that 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned', and Marie is furious!