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About the author: Leslie Ford is a pseudonym of Zenith Jones Brown, 1898-1984. She also wrote as David Frome and Brenda Conrad. Also see this Book Scribbles blog: Leslie Ford's Fall From Grace.
Locale: Natchez, Mississippi
Major characters:
- Louise Gould, Garden Club member, our narrator
- Cornelia Cartwright, Garden Club president
- Lusby, Cornelia's chauffeur
- Miss Laetitia "Letty" Drayton, Garden Club secretary
- Judge Ed Drayton, Letty's brother
- Kate Drayton, Letty's sister
- Anne Drayton, -----'s daughter
- Lawrence Drayton, Ed's son (Anne's cousin)
- Steven Heywood
Synopsis: Garden Club president, wealthy (and pushy) Cornelia Cartwright is determined to go to Natchez on a Garden Club pilgrimage. She brings along Louise Gould, and to save on expenses includes club secretary Miss Letty Drayton, as she has family in Natchez and Cornelia plans to impose on their hospitality instead of spending money on a hotel. Letty is reluctant to go at all, likely because she would be embarassed by her family's poor situation. They depart, driven by Cornelia's chauffeur Lusby.
Along the way they encounter a young man, Steven Heywood, who is also bound for Natchez to look up a young woman. He is the heir to a will which leaves him several plantations if he marries her before he turns 26.
The ladies arrive in Natchez and are astounded to find Letty's family's in a palatial mansion. Letty is received coldly by her brother, Judge Ed Drayton, sister Kate Drayton, and nephew Lawrence Drayton (Ed's son). Her niece Anne Drayton (.... daughter) is the only one to welcome her warmly.
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