"In this wry comedy of manners...set in the parish of St. Basil's Chruch in a slightly unfashionable quarter of London. The vicar, Mark Ainger, his wife Sophia, her sister Penelope, a new arrival to the parish named Rupert Stonebird, and a gentlewoman named Ianthe Broome fret over unprobable attachments and embark on a holiday to Romethat will prove decisive to them all."