Judith gradually gets settled in her new school. The girl she saw in the shop in Penzance, Loveday Carey-Lewis, is in her dormitory, but they have not had much contact. When Judith receives her father's Christmas present two months later, Loveday brings it to her, and Judith shows her. After that, the two of them become good friends. From Loveday she learns that she has two siblings, eighteen-year-old Athena, who is studying in Switzerland, and sixteen-year-old Edward, who is in a boarding school as well. Loveday explains that she ran away from her last school because she wanted to be closer to home.
Some weeks later Judith is called to see the headmistress, Miss Cato, and she tells Judith that Mrs Carey-Lewis has requested permission for Judith to come home to hers with her daughter. Miss Cato has talked to Aunt Louise and there is no problem, so the next weeekend Judith goes to the Carey-Lewis's. Loveday's mother is waiting for them ouside the school in her car, and she insists Judith call her Diana. On the way home Loveday asks her mother who is at home this weekend, and Diana says that there is Tommy Mortimer, who is a friend of Diana's, and Jeremy Wells, whose father is Colonel Carey-Lewis's doctor and who was also tutor of Edward.
Judith is awed when she sees the magnificent home of her friend. There she meets the two men Loveday talked about, and one, Jeremy, is the young man who she, her mother and Jess met on the train on their way back from Plymouth. Judith then also thought that he was a good young man, and he is also a doctor like his father. Judith also meets the staff who include Mary, the nanny. Judith also meets Loveday's father, who she realises is much older than his wife, but he is also affable.
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