"Thee, Hannah, thee, Sally, are you still talking?"

The little girls held their breath and made no answer. Every night before going to sleep they played a game of making believe they were fashionable ladies shopping. It was always for flowered bonnets and red satin that rustled that the little Quaker girls asked the pretend shopkeeper. But to Hannah these fine clothes were not only a part of bedtime game! All the day long, too, in her heart was the wish that her dull grey dress was a bright colored silk and her plain heavy scoop bonnet was a beribboned one like Cecily's, the little girl next door who went to Old Saint Peter's instead of Quaker meeting.

What happens to make the Quaker bonnet feel light and beautiful to Hannah—something to be proud of even though it was still the same heavy scoop—is a very important thing.

This story of Hannah is a delightful picture of the happy simple life of a family of Friends living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War.

Mrs. de Angeli, with a story and pictures of rare charm, has created another little girl and a setting that will win as many friends as little Henner's Lydia and her Pennsylvania Dutch country.

From the dust jacket