The Governess is the latest exciting literary romance novel in Margaret Bowker's Modern Classics Series. Raised by wealthy Mrs Mallory, twenty-two year old Mary Charlton goes to Princeton Court to be an assistant governess to Harry Toille, the young son of Lord Bryam. She soon takes on the additional role of chaperone and friend to his elder sister, Jocasta Cecil, a pretty, wilful girl of twenty with forty thousand pounds. Mary yhelps Jocasta through a number of scrapes and is attracted to Nicholas Hammick, heir to the hazeley Hall estate, and a veru suitable match for the young heiress, but the arrival of John Feltham, a trainee schoolmaster, diverts Jocasta and Mary has to try hard to keep her to her mother's plan, even though her step-father, Lord Bryam, is plotting to disgrace her. When Lord Bryam arranges for Jocasta to dance in transparent clothing, Mary has to intervene. She discovers a secret link with Jocasta and continues to save her reputation, until she pushes Lord Bryam too far and nearly loses her life.