It seemed to Grace that she had not laughed so much in years.

Anne, Jessica and Reddy had not been able to join their friends for the Easter holidays and were loudly mourned and sorely missed.

Tom Gray managed to come on for a two days' visit and cause Grace the only unhappy moments she spent at home by again asking her to give up her beloved work to marry him.
"I'm so sorry for Tom," she confided to her mother, on the night before leaving home to return to Overton, "but I can't give up my work, even for him.

Really and truly, mother, I wish I did love Tom in the way he wants me to love him, but I don't.

I feel toward him just as I felt when I first met him.