Kezia the main character is short stories based on the young life of katherine menfield kezia is a little girl and the main character of this story her father is a very successful businessman but for the little girl he is a figure to be feared and avoided every morning of before going to the job he give a casual kiss to the little girl and she response of with goodbye father
Kezia nurse her father in the evening when father gets back from the job the girl helps him remove his boots her mother tells her that it is her reward for being a good girl kezia stutters also but only when she speaks to her father crisis in the family one afternoon a Crisis occurs in the family her father is said to give a speech to the local port authority it is a very important document but his speech is missing it is found now where in the house surprisinlg kezia has taken the papers and turn them into pieces to stuff the pin cushion it was a present made by the little girl for her father her father's birthday was approaching the MacDonald old family lives next day door to the house of kezia he happens to see the gentle loving father play with his children she also finds that the children have no fear of their father hance she realize that all fathers are not the same suddenly kezia,s mother becomes I'll and her grandmother goes to the hospital she is alone at home under the care of Alice who is cook but a fear grows in her when allies put a her too bad she tells her about the nightmare which head visited her some time back the visit of nightmare again fears and starts screaming her father hears har scream and comes near her he takes her to his bad in his arms happily Steel she crips close to him and lays hands see realise that of her father has a big the heart