For most of her life Mary Bennet has been an object of ridicule. Her lack of social graces has embarrassed her family on more than one occasion. But lately‚ Mary has matured and attained a respectable‚ if somewhat unpolished‚ decorum. Then her sister Lydia turns up — pregnant and separated from Wickham. Mary and Kitty are bustled off to stay with Jane and her husband. And it is there that Mary meets Henry Walsh‚ whose attentions confound her.