Our heroine is sorely disillusioned when Lady Kitty turns out to be a superficial old windbag desperately trying to recapture her past while Lord Proteus is likewise – old, fat, and fatuous. Astonishingly, Elizabeth fails to profit by this example and runs off with her lover all the same – but only after she is convinced that Ted is not and never will be a Lord Proteus. Strictly Unconventional is a cleaned-up adaptation of Somerset Maugham's