 Millicent Hopkins (Teresa Wright), while touring with a dancing troupe in 1892, meets Clive Loring (Ray Milland) who is campaigning in the English Midlands for Parliament. They fall in love and Millie remains behind at the home of her father (Reginald Own) while her friend, Rose Bridges (Virginia Field) and the rest of the company go to London. Lord Belmont (Sir Cedrick Hardwicke), Clive s older brother, tells Millie that a marriage below Clive s station will jeopardize his future happiness. She resolves to drop out of his life and, without telling him, rejoins the troupe at the Empire Theatre. Mille and Rose, leaving the theatre without removing their makeup, are stopped and questioned by a bobby (Leyland Hodgson). They flee and Millie takes refuge in the rooms of a sympathetic stranger, Jose Martinez (Anthony Quinn), a Spanish concert pianist, where she remains most of the night. The next morning, a Scotland Yard Inspector (Rhys Williams) arrives and arrests Martinez.