In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
- Charles Bennett
- C. S. Forester
- Peter Godfrey
- Alan Campbell
- James Hilton
- Norman Corwin
- Jack Hartfield
- Lawrence Hazard
- S.M. Herzig
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- Claudine West
- John Van Druten
- Gene Lockhart
- R.C. Sherriff
- Christopher Isherwood
- Keith Winter
- Alice Duer Miller
- Michael Hogan
- W.P. Lipscomb
- Frederick Lonsdale
- Emmet Lavery