Dear Enemy

The letters are headed Dear Enemy because the man who reads them is a dour Scots doctor with no sense of humour and an infuriating habit of being right. Sallie McBride, red-haired and frivolous by her own account, takes charge of the John Grier Home as a favour to Judy Abbott, who grew up in that building and escaped it in Daddy-Long-Legs, and stays to fight the trustees over the blue gingham uniforms that turn a hundred children into one child, over dormitories, over an orphan's right to be naughty.