<p>After their beloved Mama passed away, Amalita and Carolyn's father, Sir Frederick Maulpin, could not bear living in the family home that reminded him so painfully of her. <br>So he left his daughters behind for Paris, perhaps hoping to rediscover the raffish man-about-town he once was. <br>To the girls' chagrin, he immediately fell in love with and married a Frenchwoman called 'Yvette', whom his daughters considered vulgar and quite unsuitable...