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Charley Noonan, a rough-tongued young farmer, has been pursuing Christine Summers, a pretty young teacher in a country school in the 1930s, for years. But Christine finds herself falling in love with lonely widower Alan Kelso. Alan has also caught the eye of pony breeder Beatty McCall. Passionate, experienced and unscrupulous, Beatty wants him for herself. But sometimes all it takes to fall in love is dancing to the Paradise Waltz.