Instead of going back to Blackwood Hall, Billie is going on to a school in Virginia, not far from Washington, that Mr.Howard suggested sending him to.

He is a great believer in the value of environment that is associated with historic traditions." Kit read this last over twice, but could not agree with it at all.

She had always liked the pioneer outlook, the longing to break new trails, the starting of little colonies in clearings of one's own making.

If there was an ivy around her castle, she wanted the joy of planting it herself, and seeing it grow from her own efforts.
Jean had always told her that this came from the distaff side of the family.

There had been a Virginian ancestor long ago, who had broken away from the conventional life on the big river estate, near Roanoke, and had gone faring forth into the wilderness.