Some issues remain unresolved between Prudence Mallow and Lord Dammler of Imprudent Lady. Is he indeed a rake and immoral hedonist? Is she a prudish, intolerant stick-in-the-mud? His play is a roaring success--but so is her "anonymous" book mocking the folly of London society--and him. Who induced Uncle Clarence to set up an atelier with Dammler's former mistress as model? Perhaps these lovers are too different to make a lasting pair....