Seraphina — Jean Merrill

SERAPHINA'S LIFE WAS ORDERED AND TRANQUIL UNTIL .. .

her niece, Georgiana, came to visit. First Miss Georgiana's canary flew over the gate and into the garden of Seraphina's long-lost fiance. Then Miss Seraphina Silk missed her weekly Ladies' Guild meeting and met instead the disturbing, mysterious Mr. Rowbotham. Next, Georgiana disappeared and Seraphina had to don the garish costume of a magician's assistant to find her. And finally, she saved her niece from the clutches of villainous white slavers and, at long last, Seraphina found her own true love!