Mary Louisa Molesworth

[from The Evening Express, Sat Nov 28, 1896]

Mrs. Molesworth's style is always sincere and satisfactory, and this time she tells us a very fetching tale of Philippa Raynsworth, who, however, for such a good and sensible girl, did a very extraordinary thing.

Philippa's pretty young sister Mrs. Headfoot, the wife of an officer in the Indian service, is invited to visit her husband's relatives, to whose estates he is the prospective heir. Marmaduke Headfoot writes his wife that she must take wither her a maid, but money being rather scarce with both Headfoots and Raynsworths, Philippa concocts the daring scheme of going to Wyverston as her sister's servant. It is done without the knowledge and consent of her family. And the reader will see at once that a story with such a plot must be full of all sorts of accidents and incidents which result in many trials and tribulations and unexpected situations, although all comes right in the end.