A zoologist, Mark, brought a child from Africa, a wild child who was raised by chimpanzees in the jungle and could say neither words nor her own name. Named Pansy, she is lovingly raised by Mark and his fiancée, Marlin, and gradually grows up to be a human girl as she spends time with Ed, a mysterious boy she meets in the garden. She promised Ed that she would be the best lady she could be, but she soon runs away from the school she entered... However, the old Earl of Hertford she meets on her escape is actually....