The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes in the impossible. Through the limited "wide-scope" descriptions the reader is not sure of the historical setting or even in which decade it's set, but it helps to understand the focus of the story; after all it's about their own little world, and how their own hearts and lives fit together in the tight confines of their town, their garden, their friendships and lives.
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- Chapter 01: A Falling Star
- Chapter 02: Welcome Home
- Chapter 03: The Voice of The Violin
- Chapter 04: The Crosby Twins
- Chapter 05: An Afternoon Call
- Chapter 6: The Light On The Altar
- Chapter 7: Father And Son
- Chapter 8: The Year's At The Spring
- Chapter 9: A Knight Errant
- Chapter 10: Sweet And Twenty
- Chapter 11: Keeping The Faith
- Chapter 12: An Enchanted Hour
- Chapter 13: White Gloves
- Chapter 14: The Thirtieth of June
- Chapter 15: How She Will Come To Me
- Chapter 16: How Isabel Came
- Chapter 17: Penance
- Chapter 18: Less Than Dust
- Chapter 19: Over The Bar
- Chapter 20: Risen From The Dead
- Chapter 21: Saved--And Lost
- Chapter 22: A Birthday Party
- Chapter 23: "Tears, Idle Tears"
- Chapter 24: The House Where Love Lived