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The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the
happy Vanstone family. The first scene is a wonderfully dramatic legal thriller. The reader is
introduced to Mr Andrew Vanstone, Mrs. Vanstone and their two daughters Norah, age 26, happy
and quiet, and the irrepressible Magdalen, just 18, beautiful but with a steely jaw. They live in
peace and contentment, looked after by their governess, Miss Garth. Magdalen likes nothing
better than to read at her window while her personal maid combs through and through her long
hair. “Private theatricals!” is the cry as she signs up for a performance of Sheridan’s “The Rivals”.
She finds herself a talented actress and falls in love with Frank Clare, the good for nothing but
handsome son of a neighbor, whom she entices into the play. They are to be married, their fathers
agree, and then the bottom drops out of their world. Mr. Vanstone is killed in a local train crash,
and Mrs Vanstone dies in childbirth. The girls discover from the lawyer Mr. Pendril that their
parents have only been married a few months and the wedding invalidated their will (which left
everything to the daughters). The daughters have no name, no rights, no property and the entire
family fortune is inherited by an older brother Michael Vanstone who has been estranged from the
family for many years. With the help only of their loyal governess Miss Garth, the two girls set out
to make their own way in the world.From the second scene onwards, the character of the novel
completely changes. It becomes comic as the confidence tricksters try to outdo each other. This
scene is in York, where Magdalen enlists the help of Captain Wragge, a distant relative of her
mother’s and a professional swindler. He helps get Magdalen started on the stage in return for a
share of the proceeds. His wife Matilda, a huge clown of a lady, has to be kept in check. Her head
is full of recipes and dressmaking.Scene three is in Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. Magdalen, having
earned some money, forsakes the stage and plots to get her inheritance back. Michael Vanstone
has died and his only son, Noel Vanstone is sickly and looked after by his housekeeper, Virginie
Lecount, a shrewd woman who hopes to inherit his money. Magdalen goes to Lambeth disguised
as Miss Garth to see how the land lies, but Mrs Lecount sees through her disguise and cuts a bit
of cloth from the hem of her brown alpaca dress as a keepsake.Scene four is in Aldborough,
Suffolk, where Magdalen tries to carry out her plot to regain her inheritance by marrying Noel
Vanstone under an assumed name, with Captain and Mrs Wragge posing as her uncle and aunt.
Wragge and Lecount plot and plot in their attempts to outdo each other. In the end, Lecount is sent
on a false errand to Zurich, and Magdalen and Noel are married. Captain Wragge arranges the
marriage on condition that he will never have to see Magdalen again once it has happened.Scene
five is in Balliol Cottage, Dumfries. Noel is alone, as his wife has left to visit her sister Norah in
London. Mrs Lecount is back from Zurich and explains who his wife really is, with the help of the
cut bit of cloth from the brown placa dress. Noel at her direction rewrites his will, cutting off his wife
and leaving a legacy to Lecount and everything else to Admiral Bartram his cousin. He encloses a
secret letter, asking Admiral Bartram that the money be passed to young George Bartram, but only
on the condition that he marry someone not a widow within six months, thus ensuring that
Magdalen cannot marry George for the money. The strain of this scheming is all too much and he
dies from a weak heart.Scene six is St John's Wood where Magdalen has lodgings. Estranged
from Norah and from Miss Garth, who she thinks betrayed her husband’s whereabouts to Lecount,
she hatches a crazy plot to disguise herself as a maid and infiltrate herself into Admiral Bartram’s
house to look for the Secret Trust document. Biography