THE STORY: When the lovely Lucy Andree Ramsdell is told by her practical business advisers that she must drastically alter all the traditions and extravagance of her individual way of living, she refuses to believe that a mere matter of debts could possibly endanger her home or gracious habits of hospitality. She does, however, make feeble and ineffective gestures in the direction of economy. But it is no use; everything that made life pleasant and leisurely begins to crumble, and Lucy finds herself powerless to act, or even to think, effectively. Meantime, modern “progress” takes over. Wisteria Plantation will soon be only a memory, and Lucy begins to realize what is happening. As she takes a look out of the window of her old home she muses: “We’re ridiculous people! We’re jokes! We don’t even know how to keep a roof over our heads."
