ENTER THE ROYAL MUMMIES Kit deliberately planned her campaign for the following week, and the only girl she took into her confidence was Anne Bellamy.

It had been the greatest relief, somehow, when Anne returned to Delphi for the fall term.
There was something good-natured and comfortably serene about Anne that made her companionship a relief from that of the other girls.

Jean often said back home that Kit was such a bunch of fireworks herself, she always needed the background of a calm silent night or a flaccid temperament, to set her off properly.
"You know, Anne," Kit exclaimed, sinking with a luxurious sigh of content down among the cushions on the broad couch in Anne's room, "I'd give anything, sometimes, if I'd been an only child; of course, you've got a brother, but you're the only girl.

You don't know what it is to be one of four.

I share my room with Helen, back home, and all honors with Jean.
Then, of course, Doris is the baby, and while we all love each other devotedly, still you do have to elbow your way through a large family, if you want to keep on being yourself.