Stand Fast and Reply

vi, 278 pp. For Bitsy, at first bored and horrified by the fact that with Dad in the Army and no money she and her mother and brother must go back to Cousin Bertha's Ohio farm. Cousin Tim, at first awkward and gangling, proves to be really ""her kind"" more than the glamor boy she had mooned over at Sea Cliff. The endless physical labor of the farm, with its intangible returns in cash make Bitsy's ultimate choice of the farm rather than New York not wholly convincing, except to those who themselves would choose the farm as a way of life.