Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Pattys Freunde
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will love this book if you enjoy cheerful heroines, English country houses, afternoon teas, riddles and ciphers, and a gentle treasure hunt with a warm circle of friends.
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Patty Fairfield is almost eighteen, American to her fingertips, and spending a spring in London. In this light, warm novel, Carolyn Wells follows her through tea parties, riddle games and a country house ball. Wells was an American writer who died in 1942, and she wrote for readers who like cheerful company and a good puzzle.
Patty has a gift. She makes friends of every age and class, and she cannot see a sad face without wanting to mend it. In London she meets a lonely, beautiful lady in white who dines at the Savoy. Soon after she meets a stern old lord who has shut his daughter out of his life. Then she goes to stay with an English family who live in a grand old manor and seem to carry some secret grief. Behind that grief lies a lost fortune and a trail of rhymes.
This summary walks you through the story in order, from the first muffins in a London tearoom to the hunt for hidden money among oaks, firs and carved griffins. It shows what the book is really about and how it is told. It stops before the last chapters, so the ending stays yours to enjoy. First, meet Patty and the London she is so happy to find.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A bright American girl charms LondonFree
- 2A lady in white offers a rose
- 3Patty confronts the stern Sir Otho
- 4A borrowed gown at Herenden Hall
- 5A silly agreement and a bold visit
- 6A visit to Cromarty Manor begins
- 7The story of Uncle Marmaduke's money
- 8Clues, croquet and a proud refusal
- 9What the story is really about
- 10How the story is told
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A bright American girl charms London
The book opens in April at the Savoy Hotel in London. Patty Fairfield lives there with her father and her young stepmother Nan, who is more like an older sister than a parent. Mr. Fairfield chose a hotel over a rented house so that Nan would not have to keep house on her holiday. Patty is so full of enthusiasm that she wishes she were twins, so she could attend two afternoon invitations at once. She settles on a musicale at Mrs. Hastings's home.
Patty finds English habits funny and says so cheerfully. She laughs that Londoners believe American ladies go to market wearing diamonds. She is just as amused that London ladies shop on Bond Street in trailing pink chiffon. Yet she loves the city and its kind hostesses. English girls of her age are kept more secluded, so she feels set back two or three years, but she shrugs it off. Her taste in clothes is so sure that Nan now asks her advice about fabrics.
At the musicale she meets Mabel Hartley, a large, shy English girl with a patrician air and a note of sadness in her voice. She also meets Grace Meredith and her brother Tom, who has never met an American before. Tom makes comic verses about the guests, and he arrives at the tea table with a covered dish of hot buttered muffins. The talk turns to the English love of afternoon tea and the American love of sandwiches.
That evening Patty dines with the Hartleys. The family is small. There is Mrs. Hartley, her mother Mrs. Cromarty, whom everyone calls Grandy, Mabel, and two sturdy brothers, Sinclair and Bob. They teach Patty a private language in which each word is spoken as its first letter. Then they play riddles and word puzzles, and Patty keeps pace with them all. Grandy recites an old verse riddle, and Patty guesses the answer is bark.
On the drive home the family maid, Sarah, speaks warmly of the glories of the Cromarty family. She adds that the dear lady would keep the old place up in grand style if she only had the money that is hers by right. Patty wonders what became of it but feels she has no right to ask. She goes to sleep by the fire and wakes to ask her father if she may visit the Hartleys in the country.
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Questions about Pattys Freunde
What is Patty's Friends about?
It follows Patty Fairfield, a cheerful American girl, in England. She reunites a lonely lady with her stern father in London, then stays at a country manor where she helps a family hunt for a hidden fortune.
Who is Lady Hamilton in Patty's Friends?
Lady Hamilton, called Kitty, is a beautiful young widow who lives at the Savoy and wears white. Her father Sir Otho Markleham disowned her years ago, and Patty wants to bring them back together.
What is the Cromarty fortune?
It is the money Uncle Marmaduke Cromarty brought from India and hid before his death. He left only odd rhymes about firs, oaks, a bedhead and an angry griffin, and the family has searched for decades.
Is Patty's Friends easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that it is friendly: the chapters are short, the dialogue is quick and funny, and the riddles and rhymes invite you to play along with Patty.
Is Patty's Friends part of a series?
Yes, it belongs to the stories of Patty Fairfield by Carolyn Wells. It stands on its own, since the book explains who Patty, her father and her stepmother Nan are.