Mr. Carrisford repeat thinks about the past, his friend who was gone away for many years ago. He always feels guilty for leaving him at the time they were nearly in immensely loss. At the present, he is rich and has everything he want, thus he want to find and give half of his money to his friend’s daughter. He just only know the name “little Missus” that he called the child. Next to his house, there is a servant-girl who is extremely poor that he wishes not to be “little Missus”.
Mr. Carrisford is now finding his child whom he calls as little Missus but he has no idea about it.To make it's easier, Mr. Carmichael knows one thing that the child named Carew or Crewe is in a school in Paris. Some information of the child is that her father was already died and Russian family take her away with them. Mr. Carmichael so decides going to Moscow to look for Mr. carriford's child. One day in Winter, Sara went out for shopping and accidentally found sixpence in the snow She decided to buy a bread for herself but she changed her mind to give it to the boy sitting on the floor in front of the shop. Even she was very hungry but she still thought about others that the boy was hungrier than she was Miss Minchin got angry when Sara arrived at the school because Sara was late for cooking. Because of lacking enough clothes for winter, she can't walk quickly, so that was the reason why she came back to school late