IN THE CLOSED ROOM

by

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Little Princess



Illustrations by

Jessie Willcox Smith




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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