CONTENTS
CHAPTER III. — PERPETUAL MOTION
CHAPTER IV. — THE QUEEN OF THE WHITE ANTS
CHAPTER VI. — SINGLE MISFORTUNES NEVER COME ALONE
CHAPTER VIII. — GILLIAN’S PUPIL
CHAPTER X. — AUT CAESAR AUT NIHIL
CHAPTER XI. — LADY MERRIFIELD’S CHRISTMAS LETTER-BAG
CHAPTER XIII. — ST. VALENTINE’S DAY
CHAPTER XV. — THE ROCKS OF ROCKSTONE
CHAPTER XVII. — ‘THEY COME, THEY COME’
CHAPTER XVIII. — FATHER AND MOTHER
CHAPTER XIX. — THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON
CHAPTER XX. — IVINGHOE TERRACE
CHAPTER XXI. — BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
CHAPTER XXII. — THE MAIDEN ALL FORLORN
‘A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,’ said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into the room.
‘No, it is not Reggie. It is from Lily. Poor Lily! Jasper—accident—Come.’
‘Poor dear Lily! Is it young Jasper or old Jasper, I wonder?’
‘If it were young Jasper she would have put Japs. I am afraid it is her husband. If so, she will be going off to him. I must catch the 11.20 train. Will you come, Ada?’
‘Oh no; I should be knocked up, and on your hands. The suspense is bad enough at home