Edith lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents' stately home as a paying guest, edith meet...Edith lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents' stately home as a paying guest, edith meets charles, earl broughton, and heir to the marquess of uckfield, who runs the family estates in east sussex and norfolk.