When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he\'s shocked that she doesn\'t match the photographs sent with her correspondence.
Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchang.
But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected.
When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he\'s shocked that she doesn\'t match the photographs sent with her correspondence