Marjorie Benton Cooke: 3 books

A young woman falls in love, and in a humous fashion, learns that perhaps she is in love with the idea of being in love.

"Professor James Parkhurst, I consider you a colossal failure as an educator," said Francesca, his daughter, known to friend and family as Bambina, or Bambi for short. Professor Parkhurst lifted a startled face from his newspaper and surveyed his only child across the breakfast table. "My...

I won't have it! I won't have it! If they come, I'll run away and hide! shouted the child, wildly. That will be very rude. No one acts like that – no one except a barbarian, said Miss Wilder, calmly. I want to be a bar – – one of those things you said. You act like one most of the time.