In the Closed Room

Produced by Paul Hollander, Juliet Sutherland, Charles
Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Little Princess
Illustrations by
Jessie Willcox Smith
The playing today was even a lovelier, happier thing than it had ever been before . . . . Frontispiece
She often sat curving her small long fingers backward
They gazed as if they had known each other for ages of years
Come and play with me
She must go and stand at the door and press her cheek against the wood and wait—and listen
She began to mount the stairs which led to the upper floors
The ledge of the window was so low that a mere step took her outside