As Charles Cartwright stood in the cemetery at Watersmeet, he suddenly looked up from the grave of his beloved grandparents, Thomas and Maria, and caught a fleeting glimpse of a tall, fair-haired beautiful girl, whom he vowed, one day, to make his wife. Later, Charles discovered her name was Rose, and that she was the eldest daughter of Edward Thornton, the miller of Watersmeet. However, he was then introduced to the ravishing, unpredictable Charlotte, the miller's other daughter!