Even those for whom she initially had little friendly feeling - snobby Laura Lathrop, sullen Arthur Duncan - eventually come into her circle of influence. Here she made her first real friends, from lame Dicky Dore, who needed help with his reading, to wild Rosie Brine, who loved animals and hated bullies. Now the wealthy Beacon Hill girl found herself living - under the careful supervision of Granny Flynn, her Irish nurse, and of newspaperman Billy Potter, a close confidante of her father - in the working-class area of Boston known as Charlestown. Hoping to address this, her father, millionaire Jerome "Buffalo" Westabrook, bought her the tiny candy and toy shop that she had admired in passing, and set her up as its proprietress. A chronic invalid who had only recently learned to walk, what she lacked was good health, a sense of purpose and/or enthusiasm, and companions of her own age.
Young Maida Westabrook had almost everything that a little girl could desire, from a doting father and kind care-givers, to every luxury - toys, books, exotic pets, her very own automobile - that money could buy.
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