to be mysteriously haunted, but the very young and homeless street smart girl Marianne proves to be the reason. Connie gets married in this book and leaves her nursing career and Bill pressures Sue to marry him. Sue refuses, wanting a chance to repay the training she received from the Settlement Houses. Serving as visiting nurses, they are educating families on how to take care of the sick, teach them about hygiene and health as well as getting employment and financial aid as well. At one point, Sue helps an elderly patient fulfill her dream of travel by using the money meant for her own wedding wardrobe. Sue Barton: Rural Nurse follows Sue as she leaves the Visiting Nurses and returns home, only to find that a tragic accident has left Bill with the care of his disabled brother Elliot. He cannot marry Sue until things are settled. Sue sets herself up as a visiting rural nurse in the town of Springfield, New Hampshire and winds up in the middle of a typhoid outbreak and a sudden dam accident. The funding of a local hospital gets underway. Sue finally marries Bill at the start of Sue Barton: Superintendent Nurse and then works as the head of the nursing school at the new hospital in Springfield. However, her marriage to the new Senior Physician Bill is not smooth sailing and Sue questions her ability provide a proper nursing training for her students. Marianne Lawson, an old acquaintance from her Henry Street time in New York City, poses many problems. In the very end of the book Sue hands out her resignation and tells Bill she is pregnant. In Sue Barton: Neighborhood Nurse Sue suffers regrets about leaving her nursing career while she cares for her three children Tabitha and twin boys Johnny and Jerry, each of whom has particular needs. She also helps a young teenager, Cal, to be more sociable, and Cal's mother, the artist Mona Stuart, to be kinder. Sue realizes that her role in her family and the wider neighborhood is also important. Her old friend Kit Van Dyke is the new head of the nursing school. In Sue Barton: Staff Nurse (the final installment in the series), Sue returns to work with the help of her loyal domestic help and friend Veazie Ann Cooley, to support her four children. Baby Sue is less than a year old,