Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: SARAH PULLED OUT A LITTLE DANGLING DARK OBJECT. "Rosemary" Page 157] ROSEMARY _By_ _Josephine Lawrence_ _Illustrated by_ _Thelma Gooch_ NEW YORK CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY _Rosemary_ PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I GOOD NEWS 1 II THE WILLIS WILL 12 III AUNT TRUDY COMES 23 IV DOCTOR HUGH TAKES COMMAND 34 V WINNIE'S VOLUNTEERS 45 VI ROSEMARY HAS HER WAY 54 VII THE RUNAWAY 65 VIII SARAH IN DISGRACE 76 IX WHEN PATIENCE SLIPS 87 X THE LAST STRAW 98 XI A CHAIN OF PROMISES 109 XII ONE DISASTROUS AFTERNOON 121 XIII JACK STRAIGHTENS THINGS OUT 132 XIV A NEW SCHOOL TERM 144 XV TOO MUCH NATURAL HISTORY 156 XVI MR. OLIVER AND SARAH 168 XVII THE INSTITUTE DINNER 180 XVIII SHIRLEY IN MISCHIEF 192 XIX BUCKING THE STUDENT COUNCIL 204 XX DRESSMAKER ROSEMARY 216 XXI MR. JORDAN LEARNS SOMETHING 228 XXII SHOPPING WITH NINA 240 XXIII SARAH LOSES A MENAGERIE 252 XXIV A MYSTERY SOLVED 264 XXV GARDEN DAYS 276 XXVI THE SCHOOL PICNIC 288 XXVII A LONG YEAR'S END 300 ROSEMARY CHAPTER I GOOD NEWS The Willis house was very quiet. The comfortable screened porch was deserted, though a sweater in the hammock and a box of gay paper dolls on the floor showed that it had served as a play-space recently. Inside, not a door banged, not a footfall sounded. The late afternoon June sunshine streamed in through the hall window and made a broad band to the stairway which was in the shadow. The light touched the heads of three girls huddled closely together in the cushioned window-seat and turned the hair of one to gleaming, burnished golden red, another to a fairy web of spun yellow silk and searched out the faint copper tint in the dark locks of the third. The girls sat motionless, their faces turned toward the stairs, as silent as everything else in that silent house.