Plot Summary
Primrose consists of three interconnected love stories about Freddie and May, Hilary and Joan, and Toby and Pinkie. Freddie is reluctantly engaged to his cousin Joan, but falls in love with May. Joan, a naive, pretty young socialite, loves Hilary, a successful author of romantic yarns. Hilary is writing a story whose heroine, Primrose, is in a remarkably similar impasse. Hilary returns Joan's love, but Freddie and Joan are under the thumb of Sir Barnaby – Joan’s father and Freddie’s uncle – who, for financial reasons, refuses consent to their marrying anyone except each other.
The romance of Toby and Pinkie is impeded by Toby’s second thoughts after rashly proposing; he enlists Hilary's help, getting him to pretend to woo Pinkie so that so Toby can catch them in flagrante and break off the engagement. However, Joan also catches Hilary wooing Pinkie. During an eventful dance sequence, Toby overcomes his reluctance to marry, Sir Barnaby gives way, and all three couples are free to marry.
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