eager-expectant

Updated: June 23, 2025

"No, Mrs. Whatever the function whether it was a cosey dinner for the congenial few, a crowded reception for the uncongenial many, or a coming-out party for some one of the eager-expectant buds just bursting into bloom most of whom he had known from babyhood Peter was always ready with his "Of course I'll come " or "Nothing would delight me more " or the formal "Mr.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero