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London, 1847 god. Mister Uorren — nastoyashchiy aristokrat kriminal‘nogo mira — podbiraet na ulice bezdomnuyu devochku, sirotku semi let, kotoraya nazyvaet sebya Uinifred. Malyshka okazalas‘ smyshlenoy, i hozyainu udaetsya obuchit‘ ee vsem premudrostyam shpionazha. Spustya desyat‘ let ryadom s hozyainom Uinifred derzhit lish‘ strah. Ona mechtaet uyti ot nego i nachat‘ novuyu zhizn‘. No kak eto sdelat‘, esli za dushoy lish‘ prigorshnya monet, a lyudi hozyaina otyshchut tebya, gde by ty ni skrylas‘?.. Vo vremya ocherednogo zadaniya Uinifred vstrechaet Teodora Darlinga — obayatel‘nogo molodogo aristokrata. Tot predlagaet devushke rabotat‘ na nego, a vzamen obeshchaet razdelat‘sya s misterom Uorrenom i osvobodit‘ ee. Predlozhenie zamanchivo, vot tol‘ko Darling ne tak prost. Kuda on postoyanno uezzhaet? Pochemu uhodit ot otveta kazhdyy raz, kogda ona sprashivaet o ego sem‘e? Pohozhe, yunoy shpionke nuzhno opasat‘sya oboih hozyaev, inache ey prosto ne vyzhit‘…