In a present-day New York City bridal shop, Kate Valenteen refuses to marry Victor Strath, from a pretentious old-school Downton Abbey-style family led by the ninth earl of Strath. And with absolutely no interest in an arranged marriage or stuck in a post-Edwardian era lifestyle, she searches one bridal shop room after another to escape then climbs out a bathroom window. "We've got a runner!" "What?" "I say, we've got a runner!"