In "Married by Morning," paid companion Catherine Marks is attracted to her employers' older brother, Leo Hathaway, despite their constant bickering, so she agrees to a marriage of convenience with him, but the secret she is hiding threatens them both, and in "Love in the Afternoon" free-spirited Beatrix Hathaway is more comfortable outdoors than in the ballrooms of London and has resigned herself to never finding a suitable husband until she meets Captain Christopher Phelan--her best friend's fiancé.
