Rose is sad about this but does her best to become part of her new family. She can no longer travel back in time to visit her friends. She makes it back to present day, but the cellar is destroyed. Will helps her return to the root cellar in a terrible storm. She realizes she wants to return to her aunt, uncle and cousins’ home. The journey changes Rose from being a selfish, snobby girl into a brave young woman. They finally convince him to return to Canada with them. Will tells the girls about the agonies of battle. His friend Steve has recently died, and Will blames himself for not getting the young man to a hospital sooner. They ask everyone they can about Will, and they eventually find him in Washington. The girls work to earn money until they can afford to take the train again. The two travel by train until they have to make a quick escape from a surly, drunken man at a stop.īecause of their escape, they miss the train, which is carrying all of their money, tickets and belongings. Rose dresses like a boy to provide added protection on the trip. Rose returns to Susan, and the two decide they must head to Washington, D.C., to find Will. Her cousin Sam shows her kindness, so she tells him about her experiences traveling through time.
Rose returns to modern day and does some research to find out where Will might have been fighting. Even though the war has been over for some months, Susan has not heard anything from or about Will. Will has gone off to fight in the Civil War. She does go back to her aunt and uncle’s home, then returns to the cellar three days later to find Susan has aged three years. Susan, Will and Rose enjoy a wonderful day together, and Rose never wants to leave. Susan works for the parents of a slightly older boy named Will Morrissay. If she steps inside at just the right moment, she finds herself in the mid-1800s. Morrissay, and she seems surprised that Rose doesn’t know her. She’s also perplexed when she encounters a little old woman dressed in clothing from 100 years in the past. Rose overhears her cousins talking about her snobbishness, and she is miserable in her new surroundings. When her grandmother dies, she’s sent to live with Aunt Nan, her husband and their four boys in their ramshackle home near Lake Ontario in Canada. After that, she lived with her wealthy, but emotionally distant, grandmother in Fifth Avenue apartments. Twelve-year-old Rose Larkin’s parents were killed in a car wreck when she was 3.
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