Amalia, the eldest daughter of the Earl’s family, is cuckolded by her younger sister, for her fiancé. Even though she wants to break off the engagement, her parents won’t take her side because the fiancé claims that his affair was just a momentary lapse. At a party that she attends to distract herself, Amalia complains to a kind man who listens to her. She thinks his offer to help is just a polite gesture, but the man shows up the next day as promised. However, he is unmistakably the Duke, who is known to dislike women — a misogynist.