This romance by one of America's most beloved authors is about a number of young people gathered together at Christmas time, their happinesses and their sorrows, their trials and their triumphs. How significant that Christmas time came to be in the lives of these young people soon becomes apparent as Grace Livingston Hill tells the story of the substitute guest who found not only the old-fashioned Christmas he had secretly longed for, but a new life and a new love and a great happiness.

Mrs. Hill writes again of the kind of people we meet in our daily life - human, everyday sort of people - and yet there is a magic glamor in her pen that takes us out of ourselves and into the very land of romance.

Review taken from a Grosset and Dunlap edition.