Louisa Patterson would have settled for just being plain.  As it is, though, there's no avoiding the fact that she's simply ugly.  She's inherited the worst of all the family features and is graced with face not entirely unlike a horse's.  Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, she also stands to inherit enough money to make her the most sought after prize on the marriage market to the scores of penniless young men now haunting her grandfather's estate and singing her virtues.  But Louisa is terribly lonely.  All she wants is to be liked for herself, not her money.  She begins to think this is impossible, until she stumbles into a well-hidden cave...