Summary
Joan Doubleday, a woman whose life has ossified into a perpetual engagement without nuptial consummation, drifts through twelve calendar cycles tethered to the affable yet inertia-oozing Monty Wade. Into this suspended animation barges Jerry—Joan’s teenage niece, equal parts firefly and hurricane—who decides the fiancé is a collectible she must own. While Joan’s reticence curdles into spinsterly wallpaper, Peter Flagg, the quiet cartographer of her unspoken contours, worships from the periphery. On a wedding morning drenched in white-fluttered anticipation, Jerry detonates decorum: the grooms have swapped, Peter will now stand at the altar, and Monty is relegated to footnote. Chaos ricochets through drawing rooms and rose-strewn vestibules; quarrels bloom like bruises. Yet the niece, half saboteur half Cupid, engineers a final coup of the heart, persuading Joan that destiny wears Peter’s face, not Monty’s tepid mask.
Synopsis
Joan Doubleday is a shy spinster, who has been engaged to Monty Wade for 12 years, is secretly adored by Peter Flagg. Her young niece, Jerry, arrives and sets out to capture Monty. On the wedding day, Jerry announces that the grooms have exchanged places and that Peter will marry Joan. A quarrel prevents preparations for the wedding, but Jerry finally convinces Joan that she was meant for Peter.
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