"Aunt Patsy arrived the morning after shock, Emma was apprehensive about this artist aunt she had never before met, and with whom she was going to live in Edinburgh. Her brother, Richard, was to stay with another, more conventional aunt. It seemed at first as though things had been badly arranged. For Emma was orderly and regular in her habits, while Richard was vague and musical. Aunt Patsy was anything but orderly, and Emma was confused and frustrated by the unpunctual picnic meals, and the wild shopping sprees, and the days when there was practically no money at all. Richard's guardian seemed a far better choice for Emma, or so it seemed to her until the moment of decision."--Book jacket.