The Westminster Company, Toronto, 1910, believe 1st Canadian Edition by this publisher.  Hard cover, 434 pages.  Yellow decorated boards, black lettering on spine; some edge, corner and spine end wear; binding cracked with webbing visible at Contents page, all pages secure; book has a lean.  No jacket.  Some soil and age marks on outer page block, biopredation in fore-edges of two pages; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with occasional age spot; short upper margin tear on one page.  Binding cracked in a few areas but all pages secure.  An early 20th century novel by Canadian author Marian Keith (Mary Esther MacGregor) revolving around the William Gordon family in the Simcoe area of Ontario.  William’s genteel maiden sister Margaret from Scotland arrives for a short visit but finds her brother very recently widowed with eight young children.  She plans to stay until the elder children and her brother are able to take care of the younger ones, but time goes on and Margaret pushes her plan to return home ever forward.  She is particularly concerned about one of the children, Elizabeth, and how she will make her way in the world.