Introduction

A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP - apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried.

The Unveiling

But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past, a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles, serious, studious and penniless, and Pronto, flirt, political mover and eternal extra man.

The Conflict

Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego, but that way lies calamity...