Has anything happened ?" "Why, nothing special--I mean, nothing tragic.

It's only this, Dad's lost a lot of money all at once.

He did have a little income, enough so we never have had to depend on the farm entirely, but now, even that has been swept away.

I suppose it will come back some time after the war, but as I understand it, the stock he had has stopped paying dividends." "Jerry never had any head for business." The Dean tapped one hand lightly with his tortoise-shell rimmed spectacles in an absent-minded musing way that nearly drove Kit frantic.

"But what can you do about it, my dear?
Surely by returning at such a time you merely add to your father's burdens." "No, I won't," Kit answered, decidedly, "because I've got a plan that I've been thinking about for ever and ever so long.