Marian Chester will be home for Christmas--if things go according to plan! After visiting in the West. Marian boards a train for Boston, cradling a lunch basket. To pass the time, she sketches her fellow passengers, including the handsome man across the isle.Stuart Lynde, a lawyer, notices Marian and wonders if her pretty head is a s empty as the girls he knows. He has nearly despaired of ever finding a woman of quality.But neither of them can guess how much unforeseen delay--and the contents of Marion"s basket--may change more than an earthly destination!"The Day before Christmas" is but one in this collection of heartwarming, faith-filled stories of days gone by.Heartwarming stories of faith and love by Grace Livingston Hill"s aunt--Isabella Alden. Each book is similar in style and tone to Hill"s and is set in the late 1800s and early 1900s.