What if your eldest daughter attacks you with a malicious lie?

It is 1913. Stephanie, the eldest daughter, is a lovely young woman; tall, well-grown, with a creamy complexion, thick blonde hair, and large blue eyes. She is intelligent, charming and funny. She should marry well and do the family proud, but she behaves so badly, going out with young men, unchaperoned, to dance-halls.

When her mother attempts to rein in Stephanie's behavior, concerned that it will ruin the marriage prospects of her three sisters, Stephanie retaliates...