Jack Langton is about to be married to Clarissa, the
virginal young daughter of his business partner.
Helen Fairchild runs a school for respectable young
ladies, where she teaches her young charges how to please
their future husbands in bed.
The moment Jack accidentally discovers the secret of her
school, he wants lessons for himself. Not to learn how to
please his future wife, however, but to learn how to
please Helen, with whom he is instantly obsessed. Helen
reluctantly agrees to take him as a pupil. At first she
only wants to take this arrogant man down a peg or two and
teach him how to treat a woman properly. But as the
lessons progress, she gradually falls in love with him.
As Jack's marriage draws ever closer, he falls ever more
under Helen's spell. But as a man of honor, he cannot
withdraw his promise to Clarissa.
Helen's lessons must teach Jack and Clarissa, and Helen
herself, to recognize what their hearts truly yearn for
before all three of them can find the happiness they crave.