Nineteen-year-old Poppy Meadows enjoys life! The only blot on her happiness is her dreadful boss, with his roving eye and roving hands. Vowing to find another job, she enrols in a shorthand class at night school. One rainy day, she is knocked to the ground by two people bounding down the steps of an office block, but her pride will not let her accept the young man's offer to replace her ruined raincoat. When Andrew Wilkie-Brook tells his sister Charlotte 'I wish she'd let me help', someone is listening and decides to take a hand. Her name is Fate...