 Though a great honor, Richard Bellamy was  kicked upstairs  when he was elevated to the peerage. Anxious to return to an influential post in the government, Richard aspires to become Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Toward this end, he enlists Virginia to invite the very wealthy and politically connected, Sir Guy Paynter, to dine at Eaton Place. Virginia dislikes him intensely, but Richard asks that she suffer him and to play the political wife. Downstairs, Ruby has invited her male suitor, a gentlemen with whom she s corresponded via a personal advert, to Sunday tea in the servants  hall. He is respectable and well-spoken and is expected to pop the question. Upstairs, when Virginia spends too much time with Guy, the tabloids link the two romantically and Richard, despite his quest, ask that Virginia stop seeing him -- more for the sake of their marriage than his career. Virginia complies willingly, for reasons of her own and downstairs, Ruby s suitor is turned away by her because, he doesn t  look at all like Rudolph Valentino,  as he originally claimed.