 Why did Judy start crying in the attic of her grandparents home?
I met you when the whole valley below the big Roulsville dam was threatened by flood and you solved that—” “That,” declared Judy, “was my brother Horace, not me. He and Judy’s mother usually went to the beach hotel where they had honeymooned. Every summer Dr. Bolton and his wife relived it. And every summer Judy went to stay with her grandmother Smeed, who scolded and fussed and tried to pretend she wasn’t glad to have her. As Judy wiped it away she noticed that it had fallen on a picture of a fountain. On the lawn a fountain still caught and held rainbows like those she was to see on her honeymoon at Niagara Falls. She and Lorraine had listened to this much of what Judy was telling them without interruption.
 She was lonely with no friends.
 She was trying to cry to get tears for the fountain of wishes.  She was lonely with no friends.  She was sad that her parents wouldn't let her come on their vacation.  She was afraid of the attic.