Dinners With Mr. Danville

Christmas is an inconvenient holiday for Helen Wright. Her sister Lucia always invades the household with her husband and seven children. Her stepfather insists on carrying on ridiculous traditions and her brother, Geoffrey, constantly invents new ones. The result of all this chaos is that Helen has no place to conduct her experiments in peace and worst of all, no one of good sense with whom to discuss them. During most of the year, she looks forward to a weekly dinner discussion with Mr. D...