House of Love
Author: first_name: Elizabeth
last_name: Cheney
Language: English
Year: 1914

“‘Little gal,’ he repeated, ‘air ye all alone in the world?’
This time the sound resolved itself into an unmistakable sob.”<br><br>With these words we are introduced to young Doris Avery. Newly orphaned, penniless, and without a single friend, Doris is sent to Waverly Ridge where she has been hired to work in a farm household. With her mother’s last words, “Remember, dear, you are God’s little girl,” echoing in her mind still, Doris enters service in a house full of strangers. Many are ambivale