Grace Helen Bailey

세 권의 책이 연속으로 실패하고 슬럼프에 빠진 찰스 디킨스는 무턱대고 크리스마스 전까지 새로운 소설을 발표하겠다고 선언한다. 그에게 남은 시간은 고작 6주.불현듯 ‘스크루지’라는 고약한 구두쇠 캐릭터를 떠올린 그의 눈 앞에 상상 속의 ‘스크루지’ 영감이 실제로 나타난다. 하지만 사사건건 방해를 놓는 ‘스크루지’ 때문에 소설은 마무리가 되지 않고 꼬여만 가는데... 과연 그는 6주 만에 새로운 소설을 완성시킬 수 있을까?

During a raging storm, a baby is washed up on shore on an island in Greece and is adopted by the wealthy Stanhopes, who name her Lorelei. Eighteen years later, Lorelei, now a woman, invites her school friends to spend their vacation at her villa. One of her guests, Julie, is insanely jealous of Lorelei. One day Gerald Waldron, a disenchanted society fop, sails by on his yacht, accompanied by his social-climbing friend, Hartley Royce. Seeing Lorelei and her friends swimming, they decide to go ashore. Both Gerald and Hartley fall in love with Lorelei, and Julie rages, finding herself relegated to Hartley. Together Hartley and Julie plot to separate the lovers.

To support her younger sisters, Polly Vance finds work as a live-in companion to the aging Johanna Webb. Johanna's nephew, Chester Creigg, quarrels with his aunt and severs relations with her, because of her cruel treatment of her new employee, after which Polly returns to her old home. Then, when a fire breaks out at Polly's house, Chester rushes over to save her sisters, but loses his eyesight during the rescue. Convalescing from his burns, Chester learns that Johanna has died and marvels at the similarity between her and the old housemaid who is now taking care of him.