Best Laid Schemes

At twenty-six, Susan Parker has spent too many years in the quiet stacks of a library, cataloging other people's adventures while her own life gathers dust. She remembers every dull tea, every unremarkable gentleman who failed to stir her heart, and she wonders if adventure is simply something that happens to other women. Then her neighbor Webster G. Burgess urgently needs a dinner guest, someone impressive enough to charm his distinguished visitor, Brown Pendleton. Susan says yes, and something shifts. That evening, as the luminous 'Susie,' she discovers a woman she never knew existed: someone witty, bold, and utterly fascinating to Pendleton himself. But when the candles burn down and morning comes, the question remains: can this new self survive the daylight, or must Susan return to her quiet life of unfulfilled longing? Meredith Nicholson's 1922 comedy sparkles with period wit and social observation, tracing one woman's discovery that the greatest adventure might be learning who you could become.