Reid meets a woman who doesn't trigger his allergy, but she has a boyfriend. Old Mrs. Graham, his grandmother, demands he secure an heir and pressures him to pursue the woman; Reid refuses to break up her relationship. A family member under Grandma's orders vows to dig up the woman's background. Their mother then forces her daughter to help Reid, delivering the ultimatum: "Help your brother, and you're still my daughter; if not, you're nothing to me." The daughter pleads, is coerced, and the investigation into the woman begins—leaving her trapped.