Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the Great House at Allington. His sister-in-law lives at the adjacent Small House wit... » 

Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the Great House at Allington. His sister-in-law lives at the adjacent Small House with her two daughters and the action centres on the relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements of the girls. «