Maggie was a young woman who worked in a dye shop in Nacogdoches in 1827. Herbert Marx had a brief relationship with her while he and his brothers were trapped in the past. The relationship left him reluctant to agree to his brother Julius' plan to return them to their own time by standing in a lightning storm, since that's how they'd wound up in the past in the first place.[1] However, by the time of the first spring storm, Herbert and Maggie were no longer seeing each other, and he joined his brothers without a qualm.[2]