![]() ![]() ![]() It was also linked to a haunting melody composed by her father that she used to play endlessly on the piano, but whose conclusion had never been written. This rhyme was linked in her confused mind with the tragedy of her father, a composer, who had just died and her mother whom she could barely remember. Gradually Claude, like the rest of the household, became intrigued with Miranda's strange, often willful ways and by her constant harping on the old nursery rhyme, Claude hadn't much use for girls, and though when Miranda arrived (for that was her name) he did his utmost to be kind to her, he was not best pleased by the change in their lives. "Claude Gilroy lived quietly with his father, an architect, in the country, and it came as an unpleasant surprise to him when he was suddenly told one day that a girl would be coming to live with them. ![]()
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