When Maris awoke that momentous morning, exactly three weeks from her wedding day, she felt somehow depressed. Maris Marberry was lovely, with blue eyes and gold hair, and she was going to marry handsome, wealthy, young Tilford Thorpe. Why should she feel so depressed? Tilford was a fine match for any girl but deep down in her heart Maris was beginning to realize that her fiance was really a snob and lacking in the finest points of character.

Soon those small misgivings were to assume tremendous proportions, for great trouble came that day to the Marberry family. Maris' mother had a heart attack, her father almost went to pieces from shock, and Alexa, her five-year-old sister, came down with measles. Now Maris saw Tilford in his true colors.

With the help of her brother and Lane Maitland, a one-time neighbor who had just returned after an absence of several years, Maris managed to run her little hospital successfully. But Tilford Thorpe was accustomed to having his own way and he intended to have it this time even if he had to resort to desperate methods to get it. Maris learned how to seek and find strength from a source that never fails.

Mrs. Hill has written a vital story of a gallant and devoted family. Maris is both intense and warm, one of the finest character portrayals to come from the pen of the well-loved author, Grace Livingston Hill.

Review taken from a Grosset and Dunlap edition.