It is 1912 and Laurence Wyllie's parents have decided that he should work in London for a year, to learn English law, before becoming a junior partner in his family's law firm in Scotland. Laurence has drifted into an engagement with Monica Fleming, the daughter of family friends, but in London he meets and falls in love with Geraldine Taylor, who is a suffragette. In spite of fierce opposition from his family, Laurence is determined to break his engagement to Monica and marry Geraldine...