After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Margaret Lockwood
as Hesther Shaw Barbary
Phyllis Calvert
as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
James Mason
as Lord Rohan
Stewart Granger
as Swinton Rokeby / Peter Rokeby
Harry Scott
as Toby
Beatrice Varley
as Gypsy Fortune Teller
Martita Hunt
as Miss Patchett
Helen Haye
as Lady Rohan
Raymond Lovell
as The Prince of Wales
Nora Swinburne
as Mrs. Fitzherbert
Kathleen Boutall
as Amelia (uncredited)
James B. Carson
as Gervaise (uncredited)
