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Edna is determined to run away with her married boyfriend, but is called on to look after her grandfather, who is suffering dementia. On his doctor's advice she is required to dress in the restrictive clothing women wore when her grandfather's daughters were young. One dress in particular has a lesson for her.
Miss Patty turns up at the post office every day, but there is never any mail for her. One day she decides she will not go there again, but then she sees an advertisement in the personal column and responds to it.
Suggests the book could be called Letters to My Children as it sets out 'ideals of living and loyalty' for the youth of England. Winifred James was 'Australian born and bred'.