Emma Longmore is making the most of her role as mistress to the handsome Daniel Forbes. Having returned from the Grand Tour and taken up residence in his Bloomsbury house, she is educating the daughters of forward-thinking people in the arts of love. No stranger to fleshly pleasures herself, Emma is also flirting with the principles of the women's suffrage movement and playing host to writers, artists and musicians. But Daniel is beginning to tire of the guests and is looking elsewhere for entertainment. And Emma's maid, Kitty, is becoming a little too liberated. In order to escape life's complications, Emma visits Paris where amorous distractions of a Gallic nature provide an amusing interlude. But on her return to England she'll have to face some life-changing decisions.