LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| "'I don't want to be just an old maid sister in somebody else's home'" (see page 34) | [Frontispiece] |
| "There was only time to . . . hastily clasp the little gloved hand held out to him" | [4] |
| "'I'll sleep better if they are on their poles instead of on my mind'" | [26] |
| "'I wish we could settle things by a feather, as they used to in the old fairy tales'" | [77] |
| "Several times she stopped Jack in passing to ask him a question" | [118] |
| "'Do you remember the first time you ever saw this?'" | [167] |
| "Gazing into the sweet face that seemed to smile helpfully back at her" | [240] |
| "'It was as if we had reached that land that we used to sing about'" | [310] |