Linda Lee, Incorporated: A Novel

There are no portraits of living persons in the following pages.
The incidents related in illustration of present-day methods of motion-picture production are, on the other hand, with one minor exception, drawn from first-hand observation in the California studios.
Under the title of THE COAST OF COCKAIGNE, an abridged version of this story was published serially, during the Winter of 1921-22, in McCall's Magazine.
Louis Joseph Vance
Darien, 20 January, 1922.
Mrs. Bellamy Druce! Rather a mouthful, that.
Is that why you make a face over it?
Didn't expect me to relish it, did you, Cinda?
I'm afraid I wasn't thinking of you at all, Dobbin, when I took it.
Meaning, if you had been, you might have thought twice before taking?
No fear: I was much too madly in love with Bel.
Was?