Spring Dream — Rosamund Hunt

Tall, auburn-haired Carolyn Chandler had never had to work -- unless one considered catering to her widowed mother's every whim work. But when Blanche Storrow, Carolyn's aunt, suffered a stroke in Sherburne, a town two hundred miles north of New York City, Carolyn volunteered to take over her aunt's millinery business temporarily.

It was only after Carolyn had reorganized the shop, bought fresh supplies in New York, and brought the old-fashioned shop that had catered mostly to older people on “the Hill, up-to-date, that it began to pays its way.

Handsome Whit Dryden, customer's man in a New York brokerage house, who had shown that he was no longer interested in Carolyn that she had left the city, must be forgotten. Perhaps by throwing her whole heart into the shop, Carolyn could do this. And there was big Mike Ralston to help, too. Mike, who belonged to one of the old Sherburne families, owned the biggest department store in town. And because he had been a friend to Blanche Storrow, he was happy to be a friend to Blanche's niece.

But that was before the hat that Carolyn had bought in New York -- the impossibly expensive original that she had hoped to use as a drawing card for the Easter hat trade -- was copied… Carolyn, who had begun to think of Sherburne as “home,” felt that she had been betrayed.