Captain Christopher Phelan has been embittered by the years of war, and he is no longer the cheerful and frivolous young man who once proposed to the flirtatious beauty Prue Mercer. Can she understand and accept him like this? Or has she also changed, because her messages reveal a deep feeling, intelligence and sublime nature? However, Christopher does not even suspect that it is not the bride who has been answering his letters for a long time, but her best friend, Beatrix Hathaway. The deception is about to be revealed as the captain returns home. He returns, full of hopes of becoming the husband of the one he fell in love with...