Miss Daphne had gone over to a meeting of the Women's War Chest committee at the Bellamys'.

Kit was wondering whether it would be best to write first to her mother or to Jean.

Jean would be leaving a few days after Christmas for New York anyway.

How she longed to know just exactly what the family's plans were for the winter.

But the worst of it was, one of the Robbins' failings or virtues as a family was for each member to spare the other members all the worry and bother possible, by carefully concealing any little personal troubles.