Sitcom about the love-hate relationship between upper-class Audrey fforbes Hamilton and Richard DeVere, the nouveau rich businessman who buys her manor house when she can no longer afford to keep it.
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Richard's position at Cavendish Foods is saved but he still needs money to keep going after buying the Argentinian plant and feels that selling the manor is his only alternative. But Audrey has had a far-better reversal of fortune: Uncle Greville has died and left her a huge sum of money. This enables her to buy back the manor as its lady twice over, as she also proposes to Richard, who accepts.
When the stockholders of Richards company threaten to throw him off the board for being an upstart foreigner, Audrey calls upon her upper crust family connections to come to the rescue.
Richard is about to sign a lucrative deal with cosmetics-firm boss Mademoiselle Dutoit, but to fend off her advances he claims to have a wife. When Marjory volunteers to impersonate 'her' for Dutoit's weekend stay, a previously-reluctant Audrey quickly jumps in, using the masquerade to have a few alterations made to the estate as the rightful lady of the manor. Richard's mother almost ruins the deception, but Mademoiselle Dutoit owns that she has known all along and is impressed by Audrey's apparent assumption of an alien role.
Richard decides to clear some of the trees and hedgerows from the estate to create extra farming land; appalled, Audrey leads the local conservationists in protest. Then she learns that somebody in the vicinity is in line for a knighthood and, assuming it to be Richard ,rapidly changes her political stance, though of course she is proven wrong.
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