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Abigail Chantry, her sister Jane and friends Damaris and Daisy attempt to survive in London after a series of misfortunes. When Abigail explores a mysterious house near their lodgings, she is startled to find an old women left ill and uncared for inside. Lady Beatrice has been taken advantage of by unscrupulous servants, but the four young women resolve to help her, and soon her condition improves. But when Lady Beatrice’s nephew Max, Lord Davenham, unexpectedly returns from ten years in the East Indies he has trouble accepting his aunt’s new “nieces.”