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Bonvivan i lovelas Uinfild Elliot, vikont Stiluell, – yavno ne iz tekh lyudey, kotorykh legko shokirovat'. Odnako molodaya dama vo glave preuspevayushchey firmy, kotoroy on poruchil restavratsiyu svoyego postradavshego pri pozhare osobnyaka, – eto, pozhaluy, perekhodit vse granitsy. Chto mozhet ponimat' zhenshchina v stroitel'stve? Osobenno – neotrazimaya krasavitsa vdova Miranda Garret, samoy prirodoy sozdannaya, po mneniyu Uinfilda, dlya drugikh zanyatiy? No postepenno nedovol'stvo vikonta smenyayetsya interesom k Mirande, interes perekhodit v pylkoye uvlecheniye, a uvlecheniye pererastayet v nastoyashchuyu, – pervuyu v yego polnoy priklyucheniy i intrizhek zhizni, – lyubov'. No gotova li Miranda pozhertvovat' svoyey svobodoy i lyubimym delom radi skandal'nogo povesy?..