Katy Books II

Dr Carr says they will have to get a housekeeper but Katy persuades him to change his mind. She says that they have good servants and she could learn to keep house and manage things, from her bed and it would give her something to think of. Although she is very young, she learns how to manage the house, and becomes a closer friend to her siblings. Four years pass from Katy's accident and she is now 16... when she suddeny finds she can walk. Her spine has healed. She is thrilled and delighted at the improvement in her health. A few months afer her recovery, Mrs Page a cousin of Mrs Carr's pays a visit... and upset Dr Carr by saying that Katy looks so serious and old for her age. He decides that she and Clover should go to school, for a year and tells Katy he's going to send them to a school in New England, which has a bracing climate. Katy is very upset, but she and Clover decide they must make the best of it... they find a new housekeeper, and she and her sister start to buy things for their trip. Lilly Page, Mrs Page's daughter is a pupil at the school and the Carrs are to stay with her on the journey. Katy who is very naive, is shocked when she meets Lilly, who is pretty but very flirty and foolish and rather snobbish. THey learn that there is a college nearby, and Lilly tells them that the older girls like to try and meet the young men there. Katy and Clover settle into the school, where they meet a lively girl called Rosamund Redding who is a senator's daughter and who gets into mischief a lot.