Marriage

MR. WELLS HAS ALSO WRITTEN
The following Novels: TONO BUNGAY LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM KIPPS ANN VERONICA THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY and THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
Numerous short stories now published in a single volume under the title. THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
The following fantastic Romances: THE TIME MACHINE THE WONDERFUL VISIT THE INVISIBLE MAN THE WAR OF THE WORLDS THE SEA LADY IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET THE SLEEPER AWAKES THE FOOD OF THE GODS THE WAR IN THE AIR THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON and THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
And a series of books upon social and political questions of which A MODERN UTOPIA FIRST AND LAST THINGS (RELIGION) NEW WORLDS FOR OLD THE FUTURE IN AMERICA and ANTICIPATIONS are the chief.
And the Poor Dears haven't the shadow of a doubt they will live happily ever afterwards. — From a Private Letter .
NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912 DUFFIELD & COMPANY
FRATERNALLY TO ARNOLD BENNETT
BOOK THE FIRST MARJORIE MARRIES
§ 1
An extremely pretty girl occupied a second-class compartment in one of those trains which percolate through the rural tranquillities of middle England from Ganford in Oxfordshire to Rumbold Junction in Kent. She was going to join her family at Buryhamstreet after a visit to some Gloucestershire friends. Her father, Mr. Pope, once a leader in the coach-building world and now by retirement a gentleman, had taken the Buryhamstreet vicarage furnished for two months (beginning on the fifteenth of July) at his maximum summer rental of seven guineas a week. His daughter was on her way to this retreat.