It's one of the greatest sights you ever saw, Kit.

I have seen the logs jammed out there in the river until they looked like a giant's game of jackstraws.

Maybe we could arrange a trip, don't you think so, mother ?" "I don't see any reason why not," replied Mrs.Bellamy.
"But I won't be here then," protested Kit.
"Oh, you'll stay till the end of the spring term, dear," Miss Daphne corrected, and right there and then Kit experienced her first pang of homesickness.

Would she really be away from the home nest until next June?
Even with this novelty of recreation, backed by wealth, she felt suddenly as though she could have slipped away from it all without a single regret, just to find herself safely back home with the family.
When her next letter arrived at Maple Lawn, Jean read it over her mother's shoulder.

The two younger girls were at school, and a little puzzled frown drew Jean's straight dark brows together.
"She's getting homesick, mother.