Arnolphe has the perfect solution to the mockery chasing husbands with cheating wives. He has arranged the perfect wife, adopting a four-year-old ward, stowing her away in a convent before extracting her at the age of eighteen, still ignorant of worldly matters. Now, in his moment of triumph, Arnolphe’s ward has met a young man spotted passing nearby. And without the knowledge of the “evils” of loving the wrong person, has fallen in love.