Fourteen-year-old Polly Milton comes to Boston to visit her friend Fanny Shaw. It’s difficult for the girl, raised in a not-so-wealthy provincial clergyman’s family in an atmosphere of love and mutual understanding, to make sense of her friend’s worldly way of life. How could you trade sledding, games with your brother, and cozy evenings with your grandmother for endless parties, uncomfortable outfits, and flirting with gentlemen? But the glitter of high society can dazzle even girls as old-fashioned as Polly…