Where Love Is
CONTENTS
HAVE you dined at Ranelagh lately?” asked Norma Hardacre.
“I have never been there in my life,” replied Jimmie Padgate. “In fact,” he added simply, “I am not quite sure whether I know where it is.”
“Yours is the happier state. It is one of the dullest spots in a dull world.”
“Then why on earth do people go there?”
The enquiry was so genuine that Miss Hardacre relaxed her expression of handsome boredom and laughed.
“Because we are all like the muttons of Panurge,” she said. “Where one goes, all go. Why are we here to-night?”
“To enjoy ourselves. How could one do otherwise in Mrs. Deering's house?”
“You have known her a long time, I believe,” remarked Norma, taking the opportunity of directing the conversation to a non-contentious topic.
“Since she was in short frocks. She is a cousin of King's—that's the man who took you down to dinner—”
William John Locke
WHERE LOVE IS
Copyright, 1903 By John Lane
WHERE LOVE IS
Chapter I—THE FIRST GLIMPSE
Chapter II—THE FOOL'S WISDOM
Chapter III—A MODERN BETROTHAL
Chapter IV—THE GREAT FROCK EPISODE
Chapter V—A BROKEN BUTTERFLY
Chapter VI—THE LOVERS
Chapter VII—A MAD PROPHET
Chapter VIII—HER SERENE HIGHNESS
Chapter IX—SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
“I?”
Chapter X—TWO IDYLLS
Chapter XI—DANGER
“I?”
Chapter XII—NORMA'S ENLIGHTENMENT
Chapter XIII—THE OPTIMIST AT LARGE
Chapter XIV—THE BUBBLE REPUTATION
Chapter XV—MRS. HARDACRE LAUGHS
Chapter XVI—IN THE WILDERNESS
Chapter XVII—THE INCURABLE MALADY
Chapter XVIII—A RUDDERLESS SHIP
Chapter XIX—ABANA AND PHARPAR
Chapter XX—ALINE PREPARES FOR BATTLE
Chapter XXI—THE MOTH MEETS THE STAR
“I?”
Chapter XXII—CATASTROPHE
Chapter XXIII—NORMA'S HOUR
Chapter XXIV—MRS. HARDACRE FORGETS
Chapter XXV—THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
Chapter XXVI—EARTH AGAIN
Chapter XXVII—A DINNER OF HERBS
Chapter XXVIII—THE WORD OF ALINE
|WHAT she wrote to him is no great matter.
THE END