In this best-selling novel, young Molly brings her brother and her bulldog to the city to try to find success. She finds a jobs writing real letters from imaginary people to invalids. This employment leads her to romance and puts her and her brother in a lot of situations. The way the author portrays the characters is realistic. The 14 illustrations brings to life the characters. The book begins: The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it-a dingy whirl at the window: a smoky gust through the fireplace: a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in the cavernous room loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872-1958) was a prolific and nationally recognized American author, most famous for her "unblushingly romantic" novels and short stories that gained significant popularity during the 1910s and 1920s.