THE TRANSFORMATION OFPHILIP JETTAN
GEORGETTE HEYER
Bibliographical Note
First publication: Mills & Boon, London, 1923
The original edition was published with the subtitle
A Comedy of Manners,
and the author used the pseudonym Stella Martin.
The book was later published as Powder and Patch,
with Chapter Twenty deleted.
Contents
| One | The House of Jettan |
| Two | In Which Is Presented Mistress Cleone Charteris |
| Three | Mr. Bancroft Brings Trouble into Little Fittledean |
| Four | The Trouble Comes to a Head |
| Five | In Which Philip Finds That His Uncle Is More Sympathetic Than His Father |
| Six | The Beginning of the Transformation |
| Seven | Mr. Bancroft Comes to Paris and Is Annoyed |
| Eight | In Which Philip Delivers Himself of a Rondeau |
| Nine | Mr. Bancroft Is Enraged |
| Ten | In Which a Letter Is Read |
| Eleven | Philip Astonishes His Uncle |
| Twelve | Philip Plays a Dangerous Game |
| Thirteen | Sir Maurice Comes to Town |
| Fourteen | The Strange Behaviour of Mistress Cleone |
| Fifteen | Lady Malmerstoke on Husbands |
| Sixteen | Mistress Cleone Finds There Is No Safety in Numbers |
| Seventeen | Mistress Cleone at Her Wits' End |
| Eighteen | Philip Takes Charge of the Situation |
| Nineteen | Philip Justifies His Chin |
| Twenty | Mademoiselle de Chaucheron Rings Down the Curtain |
One
The House of Jettan
If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurstand Brighthelmstone, inland a little, and nestling in modest seclusionbetween two waves of hills, you would find Little Fittledean, a villageround which three gentlemen had built their homes. One chose the northside, half a mile away, and on the slope of the