Because of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Jane was scared to death of being kidnapped. She didn't dare go home by the alley, lest a kidnapper grab her. Yet she had to get home, and fast, to read the Birmingham News and the latest about the Lindberghs. The papers were full of nothing else except the depression, which held no interest whatsoever for her.

When her family moved to the country for the summer she felt much safer. It was a real shock when a fearless pain-in-the-neck like Phyllis McRipley or a natural wonder like Mindy Hubbard could feel quite different.