How does a Milton Mill Master fall in love with the same woman twice? Follow John Thornton as he buys a second hand book and falls in love with the woman who wrote her heart in the margins of Jane Eyre. Margaret Hale, finding herself in reduced circumstances as a care-giver to her father until his passing then seeks work as a governess. Being hidden from Milton’s notice since settling there , Margaret Hale comes to the aid of a community fire. There she is noticed by John Thornton and other Masters. He begins to feel she is the woman he has sought all his life, unknowing that she is the one who has captured his heart in the margins, being the previous owner of the book.