While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death.

The quiet and young Inspector Pitt investigates the scene and finds no one above suspicion. As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade to crumble, Pitt finds himself curiously drawn to pretty Charlotte Ellison.

​Yet, a romance between a society girl and so unsuitable a suitor was impossible in the midst of a murder