 It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life.A young Ethel (Mischa Barton) was in love with a young farmer, Teddy Gordon (Stephen Amell), who builds a farmhouse with his best friends Jack and Chuck.Her parents think she is dating "good old reliable" Chuck (all three boys are in love with her), but within days of the Pearl Harbor attack, she has accepted Teddy's gold ring and unofficially married him – with Jack and Chuck as their witnesses.