Love at first sight ... There are girls who believe, every morning, that this could be the day that changes their destiny. Mary Buchanan was one of them. She was mistaken, though, expecting it today. Destiny would not call her until Tuesday--and meanwhile, there was breakfast. Mary Buchanan has bigger worries than the radical journalist next door who's spoiling her father's digestion: unrequited love for a footman, a fractious aunt, patiently awaiting her destiny ... She's certain he'll be handsome. Then she meets the reformer, journalist Samuel Brown. Destiny is closer at hand than Mary has supposed--if she can just get Mr. Brown to realize it.