Charming Lady Susan Vernon is a widow, who seduces both single and married men
alike. As she has been left in a financially precarious state due to the death
of her first husband, she uses flirting to gain her objectives and maintain a
semblance of her former opulent lifestyle. As a widow and a mother, her main
goals are to quickly marry off her daughter Frederica to a wealthy man, and to
marry someone even richer.