Summary
Prudence Cole—plain-spoken, dove-gray bonnet pulled low like a shield—lives sequestered beneath the whale-oil lamps of her aunts’ saltbox house, a Quaker idyll stitched with silence and stitched again with calico. Enter Henry Garrison: velvet-collar arrogance, a man who collects women the way others collect pressed wildflowers. He courts her with honeyed barbs, then drags her to a marble-and-champagne resort where laughter ricochets like thrown knives. There, beneath chandeliers that drip like frozen waterfalls, he expects the lamb to bleat; instead Prudence unsheathes a wit honed on austerity, turning the ballroom into a looking-glass that reflects every gilded cruelty back upon its authors. The film becomes a trembling daguerreotype of metamorphosis: the bonnet discarded, the eyes kindled, the Quaker girl transfigured into a sovereign who needs no crown.
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Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Snobbish Henry Garrison flirts with Prudence, but actually disdains her for her lack of worldliness and savoir-faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
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