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After her mother died, lovely Diana sought comfort in prayer and in the single flower a mysterious person dropped daily on her pathway. Touched by anonymous gifts of flowers, Diana wonders who the mystery giver is. Can it be that he knows of her despair... and wants to help her?

After her mother died, lovely Diana sought comfort in prayer and in the single flower a mysterious person dropped daily on her pathway. Touched by anonymous gifts of flowers, Diana wonders who the mystery giver is. Can it be that he knows of her despair... and wants to help her?

This story is a Grace Livingston Hill rarity, in which the main character does not find a husband/wife at the end of the story. Lucretia "Crete" Ward is a nice old lady who lives with her sister Carrie and niece Luella, both of whom are very selfish and treat her like a slave. Upon learning that Donald, the son of their now-deceased older sister, is coming to visit from out west, Luella fears what others will think of them if they are seen with a "backwoods cousin," so she and her mother hurry away to a fancy resort where Luella is anxious to pursue a young man she is convinced is interested in her, which proves to be all in her head. Donald is well-educated and rich, and loves Aunt Crete like a mother, taking her shopping for fancy clothes and paying for French maids to fix up her hair, and then to the very resort where Luella and Carrie are staying.