New York Grosset & Dunlap, copyright 1916. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. There are few light-colored spots on the cover and there is a bookplate on the free endpaper. The pages are clean and the pages are fairly tight. Reprint edition. Red and white endpapers and blue cloth cover with black lettering.

This is the fourteenth book, and the most melodramatic one in the series. Mrs. Van Reypen, on her deathbed, tries to bully Patty into marrying her nephew. Patty gets sick, too. It’s pretty great.