Publisher's Synopsis
There are four Misses Mallet. First come Caroline and Sophia - jolly spinsters with recollections of a past glamour which sustain them as the years slip by. Then there is Rose. Beautiful and so much younger than her stepsisters, she calmly waits for the man who will take her away from their life of small social successes in the city of Radstowe. But she is independent and fastidious: no man, not even the eligible Francis Sales, can entirely capture her heart. The fourth Miss Mallet is Henrietta who shares the home of her three aunts. She has a wilful spirit and determines against spinsterhood. Encouraging Francis, she falls under his spell. As Rose and Henrietta circle round Francis they are forced to decide between sense and sensibility.