The Duke's Children

Silverbridge has been engaged in a flirtation with Lady Mabel Grex, who is a cousin of Tregear's. She is an earls daughter but does not have much of a dowry. She loves Frank Tregear, but she tries to lure Silverbridge into a proposal, because he is rich and she wants to get married. However while he likes her, he is now in love with Isabel and decides to marry her. Plantagenet gets to know her, and Isabel says that she is in love with Silverbridge, but she does not want to marry him if his father wont accept the marriage. However, Plantagenet's feelings are softening as he gets over his grief, and he finally accepts the 2 love matches that his children want to make and accepts Isabel as his daughter in law. Silverbridge returns to the Liberal party and marries his American bride. Mary marries Tregear. But Plantagenet knows he will never get over Glencora's death.