 Clare confesses that she was madly and hopelessly in love with Bonvile; with his marriage, she was deeply despondent.Clare had thought that Lessingham would recognise her, Clare, and his dearest friend, and therefore his correct victim.Once the five passionate young people, Annabel, Bonvile, Clare, Lessingham, and Rochfield, are all under the same roof, they involve themselves in a tangle of misunderstandings and jealousies — until wise old Woodroff manages to get them altogether and straighten them out at the end of the play.