It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only
the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred
up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic
ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the
woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers
that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock is not what he appears to be.
The news is particularly shocking for her frail daughter, Sibyl, who is
secretly
in love with the Major.