Alfred Salteena (Jim Broadbent) is a bumbling Victorian bachelor who meets a young lady, Ethel (Lyndsey Marshal) on a train and invites her to his London home. She wishes to see society and meet young men. Ethel pesters him to go out and meet important people to introduce to her. They travel to see Lord Bernard Clarke (Hugh Laurie) where Alfred realises that he is not "high society" enough to win the beautiful social climber Ethel. Lord Bernard offers to send him to a training school to help gentlemen "improve themselves", while he "entertains" Ethel at his home.
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