The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr Primrose a kindly man who has a good heart a good family and a good income. Suddenly his idyllic life is cruelly ... » 

The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr Primrose a kindly man who has a good heart a good family and a good income. Suddenly his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes and he ends up in gaol. Yet despite all this camality and injustice the vicar never loses sight of Christian morality and while this conviction lends him a genuine nobility in the end it also brings justice and the restoration of his family and fortune. «