The Wonderful Dream

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Claudia, the daughter of a famous Shakespearian actor, is devastated when both her parents are killed in a fire. It is then that Lady Bressley, her Godmother, arrives to tell her many things she did not know about herself. Together they travel to Spain to stay with some friends in Seville, but Lady Bressley is killed in an accident and Claudia is left alone and penniless. She meets an English Marquis who is trying to escape an arranged marriage, but when Claudia agrees to help him by pretending to be his wife, it is she who must escape a proposition which she cannot accept.