I not only want it, but I have arranged for it already.

I have made secret calls, my dears, and mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters are all most agreeable.

You are to come to me a week before Christmas and must settle yourselves exactly as if you were my own children.

I mean to punish any homesick girl severely by giving her an overdose of chocolate drops.

Families may be visited once a day, if necessary, though I shall frown down upon too frequent absences.