In rural England in the late 1600s, Caroline invites her beautiful friend Barbara to attend her marriage with wealthy landowner and local magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton. But the scheming Barbara soon has Skelton entranced, and it is Barbara who becomes Lady Skelton, as Caroline looks on.
At the wedding reception, however, Barbara meets a handsome stranger, Kit Locksby. It is love at first sight for both, but it is too late. Married life in the country becomes a bore for Mrs. Skelton—that is, until a visit from her detested sister-in-law Henrietta.
In a game of Ombre, Henrietta wins Barbara’s prized jewels, including her late mother’s ruby brooch. A chance remark about a notorious highwayman, Jerry Jackson, gives Barbara an idea. Masquerading as Jackson, Barbara stops Henrietta’s coach and retrieves her brooch and the rest of her jewels. Intoxicated by the experience, she continues to waylay coaches until one night, she and the real Jerry Jackson finally meet.
Jackson is amused to find his imitator a beautiful woman. They become lovers and partners in crime, profiting off unfortunate travellers. But their plot to rob a huge gold shipment goes awry, resulting in the death of one of Sir Ralph Skelton’s tenants.
Skelton offers a reward for Jerry Jackson’s capture. When Barbara finds Jackson with another woman, she anonymously betrays his whereabouts to her husband. Jackson is captured and sentenced to be hanged.
In London, Barbara views the execution with Caroline. After the hanging, Jackson’s accomplices cut him down and revive him. He later breaks into Barbara’s bedroom at the estate and rapes her. Fearing his next move, she begs Kit to marry her.
Barbara, disguised as a highwayman, awaits her husband’s coach with a loaded pistol. Jackson shows up and realizes Barbara’s scheme, plotting to warn Skelton. Barbara kills him, attempting to shoot her husband. Kit shoots her, but she escapes. Back at the estate, a mortally wounded Barbara confesses all to Kit, pleading for him to stay with her until the end.
After her death, Caroline and Skelton reunite, determined to move forward and put the past behind them.
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