Cara is sent away by her Mum to live with her aunt for a while and this aunt is very strict as she tells Cara what she can’t do though she was to make herself useful. This aunt has also insisted that Cara calls her Mrs Gilbert and Cara worries about how far behind she will be when she returns to school.

Although Cara gets to know Will and Robert and she has confided in Will about a letter that she has found that is unopened and it is about her brother.

Will tries to advise Cara to open the letter and read it but she is worried that if Mrs Gilbert finds out that she has the letter that her aunt will be angry, at her. Cara also breaks quite a few of Mrs Gilbert’s rules and no doubt that is another thing that she is afraid that her aunt will discover that she has done.