Zelda Lang, a struggling fortune-teller newly arrived in the city, is spotted eating and soon approached by Theo Wolfe, a wealthy 26-year-old who proposes marriage after she reads his fortune and predicts wealth and children. They agree to register their union despite Theo admitting a chronic, treatable condition. Zelda immediately asks for a baby; Theo hesitates. Family members react: Cody mocks Zelda as a country bumpkin and questions rumors that she is the Phantom Healer's protégé. The marriage is set in motion, but Cody's public suspicion leaves Zelda's reputation and the couple's future unsettled.