Book description
In Six Cousins Again the town cousins, Cyril, Melisande and Roderick, move to Holly Farm with their parents, David and Rose Longfield. Unlike Mistletoe Farm, it is small and modern, leading Cyril to say optimistically, "This will be play to run properly." However, before they move in Melisande expresses doubts about whether their mother will take to farm life: "… when Mother’s really here, running this dear little place, she’ll surely love to learn everything … Oh dear — I do hope Mother won’t hate things."
On moving-in day, Rose looks beautiful and the house is immaculate. Rose compares herself to Aunt Linnie, saying, "I’m the kind of mother you want, aren’t I?" and Melisande remarks that "this is something like a home!" But do good looks make a mother, and does fine furniture make a home?
