A scheming man orchestrates his wealthy wife’s death through a long slow accumulation of poison in her blood stream. Upon her death, he contacts his other love interests and contrives a premise upon which they can get together while still maintaining an appropriate period of grieving. Seems a perfect plan until the housemaid approaches him with a proposition thinly veiled as blackmail. She knows about what he did and forces him to enter into a relationship with her so she can have a share in the estate. 