Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the
company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope
Wilkins. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs
someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perhaps
like their handsome travelling companion, Lord Augustus
Railton. Penelope, however, thinks Lord Augustus is a ne-
er-do-well Hannah's hopes for adventure, on the other
hand, are fulfilled when the coach happens upon a footman
who faces hanging for a crime he didn't commit.