Amy explained later that she got the idea from Sargent's "Gifts of the Hours." "Although, if it had been summer time, we would have tried to make it more like Tennyson's 'Princess,' but I think this carries the idea all right.
Norma wrote the couplets, and they almost have a prophetic note.

Don't you think so, Kit ?" Kit agreed that they did, and long afterwards, up in the old cupola council room, she read them aloud to Helen and some of the Gilead girls.
One in particular rather hit her fancy, because Kit hated early rising.
"Rise, sweet maid, when the cock is crowing, If Fortune's bugles you'd be blowing." The Saturday before they left was Kit's day for entertaining.

Miss Daphne took the keenest delight in making it a success.

There was a luncheon at one, followed by a whole afternoon of entertaining.

Even the Dean emerged from his sanctum to mingle a little, and the "Jinx" declared she had never seen him so human before.