"I know perfectly well that mother needs me when she is moving back into the new house, and I never expected to stay so long when I came, anyway." She stopped short, meditating on just what this queer, choky feeling was that had swept over her.

Helen and Jean always liked to take a new emotion and analyze it, but Kit rarely concerned herself with motives or causes.
And now she only knew that she would have given up everything, future hopes of the Dean's bestowing bequests broadcast in the robins' nest, and all the winter's fun at Hope College, just to be safely back home with all the dear familiar faces around her..