Beatrix Hathaway is unorthodox yet incredibly endearing. She is horrified when her friend Prudence (Pru) Mercer refuses to reply to her expected betrothed, Christopher Phelan, letters so Beatrix offers to reply on her behalf. On his return from war however, the person he thought was writing the letters doesn't seem to be the same person. Prudence only knows what he has written but doesn't seem to know what she had sent herself making him suspicious. Eventually he works out that the letters were written by Beatrix. He feels deceived yet he is endeared by Beatrix. Her family though unconventional also win him over. Love truly grows to a happy ever after.