Lizzie starts to mix, at last, at her former lover Lochiel Cameron's urgings, into Polite Society.
It needs the interference of Kit Andover, viscount Brondemeire and his aristocratic family to get Lizzie and John together again, although the family faces problems of their own, when Attelante and Aline Fairfax, Kit's sisters-in-law are forced into prestigious marriages with older men.
