Tommie is basically a good girl, but she is easily influenced and especially susceptible to falling in with "bad boys" whom she believes she can change.

The windmere's hope that by moving to sweetwater and removing tommie from any bad elements in her life, she will settle down and marry respectably.

Tommie, however, had plans of her own...

 

Tommie Windmere is nineteen years old.

She has just moved to sweetwater with her parents, who are opening a new dry goods store.

The windmere's are terribly nervous of their high-spirited, head strong daughter.