Dorothy Canfield
Understood Betsy
Hardcover
(Grosset & Dunlap Jan. 1, 1916)
At nine Elizabeth Ann was a very much worried, very sickly little person. Her two elderly aunts watched over her lovingly, for the good ladies were determined to "do their duty" by her. Aunt Frances especially, whose own childhood had been made unhappy through lack of understanding, made up her mind to "understand" Elizabeth Ann, and her tender, sympathetic soul was always ready to comfort the little girl against everything that could possibly frighten her - and a good many that couldn't. It was Aunt Harriet's cough which was the saving of Betsy. The two good ladies were forced to go away and Betsy was left with Uncle Henry on his big farm in Vermont. From the very first day when Uncle Henry laconically handed her the reins and told her to drive, Betsy found these people expected her to do things. Everybody did his part cheerfully - everybody was happy, and happiest of all, very soon, was Betsy herself who understood at last what it meant to be really "understood."
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