Margarate begins her life as a young girl of seventeen years. She's a troubled child, but makes due with what she has and what she can have; dealing with her stepmother and stepsister, her family's financial troubles, finding a suitor, and anything else that's thrown her way. She takes it all, until things in London, England go awry for poor Margarate. Leaving her family is her first choice, but where she goes after is all in the hands of fate.