This story is about a young ambitious orphan. he desire to reinvent himself and rise to a higher social class.One day he followed his sister to Uncle place of work to play at Satis House, the home of the wealthy dowager woman who is extremely eccentric: she wears an old wedding dress everywhere she goes and keeps all the clocks in her house stopped at the same time. The woman life is defined by a single tragic event: her jilting by her ex lover on their wedding day cause her to seek revenge on every man. During his visit, he meets a beautiful young girl , who treats him coldly,Nevertheless, he falls in love with her and dreams of becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he might be worthy of her. Even though the old cold woman adopts the young girl and raises her as a weapon to achieve her own revenge on men. He even hopes that the old woman intends to make him a gentleman and marry him to girl of her dreams.