""I am Evelyn. You hate me, don't you?" "No, I am sure I do not," said Audrey. "Well, I should if I were you. It would be much more interesting to be hated."" Evelyn Wynford, heiress of Castle Wynford, when she arrives from Tasmania at her uncle's house, is wilful, selfish, vain, and unladylike. As the story develops, her aunt, her cousin, and others begin to have a healthy influence over her.