CONTENTS
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
THE NEW PORTFOLIO: FIRST OPENING.
A MORTAL ANTIPATHY.
I. GETTING READY.
II. THE BOAT-RACE.
III. THE WHITE CANOE.
IV. THE YOUNG SOLITARY
V. THE ENIGMA STUDIED.
VI. STILL AT FAULT.
VII. A RECORD OF ANTIPATHIES
VIII. THE PANSOPHIAN SOCIETY.
IX. THE SOCIETY AND ITS NEW SECRETARY.
X. A NEW ARRIVAL.
XI. THE INTERVIEWER ATTACKS THE SPHINX.
XII. MISS VINCENT AS A MEDICAL STUDENT.
XIII. DR. BUTTS READS A PAPER.
XIV. MISS VINCENT'S STARTLING DISCOVERY.
XV. DR. BUTTS CALLS ON EUTHYMIA.
XVI. MISS VINCENT WRITES A LETTER.
XVII. Dr. BUTTS'S PATIENT.
XVIII. MAURICE KIRKWOOD'S STORY OF HIS LIFE.
XIX. THE REPORT OF THE BIOLOGICAL COMMITTEE.
XX. DR. BUTTS REFLECTS.
XXI. AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION.
XXII. EUTHYMIA.
XXIII. THE MEETING OF MAURICE AND EUTHYMIA.
XXIV. THE INEVITABLE.
POSTSCRIPT: AFTER-GLIMPSES.
MISS LURIDA VINCENT TO MRS. EUTHYMIA KIRKWOOD.
DR. BUTTS TO MRS. EUTHYMIA KIRKWOOD.
DR. BUTTS TO MRS. BUTTS.
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