Patricia first appeared on library shelves in 1939. Here’s her story: An unexpected gentleman visitor lifts Patricia out of her perplexities and back into her childhood when he shows up just as she’s ready to announce her engagement at a dinner party. “In a flash she saw a wooded hillside under a stormy sky, with anemones blowing like frightened children in the grass at her feet. And off in the distance across fields and fences, a small shingled house, weatherbeaten and gray, and a boy with eyes like a young knight, standing in the doorway with his mother, while all about the dooryard valley-lilies clustered closely, their perfume filling the clean wet air. John Worth! After all these years!”
