The Intrusions of Peggy

THE INTRUSIONS OF PEGGY

A MAN OF MARK. MR. WITT'S WIDOW. FATHER STAFFORD. A CHANGE OF AIR. HALF A HERO. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. THE GOD IN THE CAR. THE DOLLY DIALOGUES. COMEDIES OF COURTSHIP. THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO. THE HEART OF PRINCESS OSRA. PHROSO. SIMON DALE. RUPERT OF HENTZAU. THE KING'S MIRROR. QUISANTÉ. TRISTRAM OF BLENT.

ANTHONY HOPE
LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1902


THE INTRUSIONS OF PEGGY
The changeful April morning that she watched from the window of her flat looking over the river began a day of significance in the career of Trix Trevalla—of feminine significance, almost milliner's perhaps, but of significance all the same. She had put off her widow's weeds, and for the first time these three years back was dressed in a soft shade of blue; the harmony of her eyes and the gleams of her brown hair welcomed the colour with the cordiality of an old friendship happily renewed. Mrs. Trevalla's maid had been all in a flutter over the momentous transformation; in her mistress it bred a quietly retrospective mood. As she lay in an armchair watching the water and the clouds, she turned back on the course of her life, remembering many things. The beginning of a new era brought the old before her eyes in a protesting flash of vividness. She abandoned herself to recollections—an insidious form of dissipating the mind, which goes well with a relaxed ease of the body.