It is Eugenia Burnham's first season, and nothing is going right. Her hair is unmanageable and no lady's maid seems capable of remaining more than a week at a time. Her mother has high expectations of her marrying well and pushes her forward on every opportunity.
Mr. Gerard Landon has been kind to her, but Eugenia doubts she will be able to keep his attention with so many other lovely young ladies in town. With the arrival of a strange new lady's maid, Julie Nelson, she begins to hope that she might have her happy ending after all.