Patricia Prentiss grows up in a mansion as the privileged
daughter to an old-fashioned father who believes in church and
public school, though his more progressive wife challenges him on
both traditions. So, Patricia develops both a love of God and for a
boy who is beneath her parents’ notice. After school and during
college, Patricia loses contact with dear John Worth, but when her
parents announce that she should wed the spoiled bully Thornton
Bellingham, she begins to desperately pray that John will reenter
her crumbling life.