"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back but does not trust his love as is known to be a great lover of beauty and she - alas - is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident. She wants to go visit him but he will not receive her as he wants only her love - not her pity. With the help of their mutual friend and doctor she gets the position as his nurse under a presumed name and thereby gets to know the 'new' Gareth.