High Bred Rose

To save her family from ruin Myra became a paid companion to Lady Eva, a young noble whose mother died. Myra falls hopelessly in love with the girl's father, but despite the attraction on both sides, the quality do not marry their paid subordinates. When Lady Eva no longer needs her, Myra returns heart-broken to her own home, where she is resigned to live as a spinster. Until the ideals of society engrained in her are challenged. An evil young man plots revenge by trying to seduce Myra's naïve young niece, and the rules of polite society turn out to be dangerous.