title: And so Mrs. Wood, How Was The Party?
author: Sally Wood
description: Sally Wood lived much of her life in a small seaside town in Massachusetts where her husband owned a small insurance and real estate agency. The parents of three active kids, both she and her husband were leaders in a variety of community affairs. When she began to suspect something was seriously amiss, and the family business started to develop serious problems, she gave up her volunteer work and joined the firm as a Realtor. From that day on they slowly reversed roles. She became the leader and he followed. For better or worse . . . Today she lives in Sarasota FL where she has learned to love and appreciate each day of this phase of her life.
zlib_text: Girls’ Dormitory
  
  Orrie Hitt
  
  First published in 1958.
  
  ISBN: 978-1-936456-13-0  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
  There wasn't any party for Peggy on her last night at home. She hadn't wanted
  one. A girl, she felt, didn't laugh and act gay when down inside, way deep,
  there were burning tears.
  
  "We should have bad a big blow out," Otis Markey decided. "We should have torn
  the corks off a dozen bottles."
  
  Peggy glanced at her father. He was a big man, red-faced and powerful, and
  when he spoke he pushed his head forward as though he were getting ready to
  ram it into a solid wall.
  
  "A dozen bottles," he repeated. "Or two dozen." He slapped his right fist into
  his left hand and made a loud noise. "When my favorite and only daughter goes
  off to college she ought to go in styl