Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott’s frivolous college friend, is astonished to be put in charge of the John Grier Home and its hundred-odd orphans. Her letters chronicle new kitchens, cottages and adoptions, a feud with the gruff Scottish doctor she nicknames her enemy, and a rich suitor who expects her to give it all up.
The 1915 sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs, warm and witty, though its talk of heredity reflects the eugenic ideas of its day. Download the free EPUB.