A witty but dissolute peer is about to engage as his secretary a young man who turns out to be his illegitimate son. Then he proceeds to make advances to the young man's fiancée.
as Lord Illingworth
as Mrs. Arbuthnot
as Lady Stutfield
as Lord Alfred Rufford
as Mrs. Allonby
as Farquhar
as Gerald Arbuthnot
as James
as Alice
as Sir John Pontefract
as Miss Hester Worsley
as The Ven. Archdeacon Dauberry
as Mr. Kelvil
as Lady Hunstanton
as Lady Caroline Pontefract
