Lillian, a sophisticated girl, holidays in unfashionable Briarbanks for her health and there meets the homespun handsome John Yarmouth. Plain and uncultured as he is she will not marry him. Then her face is scarred and her other lovers fall away but still she will not marry him, fearing pity. After 8 years she is 30, her face has healed and her lovers come back. John proposes again ... (PB)