The Beggar Bride - episode synopsis

• Episode 1 - Young and attractive, Angela Harper is on the poverty line with her loving but unresourceful husband and their sickly baby son. In desperation, she comes up with the idea of luring a rich man into a brief, bigamous marriage. But a hitch in her plan means that her family could be in real jeopardy

• Episode 2 - After her bigamous wedding and the birth of a son, Angela finds it more and more difficult to survive the pitfalls of her situation. The peculiarities of the noble family she has married into are added to the problems posed by her first husband, who is growing increasingly restless, and events move swiftly towards a surprising outcome