Lady Betty Across the Water

by C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson

Illustrations by Orson Lowell

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVI

Copyright, 1906, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, May, 1906

Second Impression

Copyright, 1905, 1906, by The Curtis Publishing Company

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To
the people of that great, delightful, and hospitable
land which gave Lady Betty the time of her life
and inspiration, this story of her visit is admiringly
Dedicated by Betty Bulkeley
and C. N. and A. M. Williamson

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CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	About Being Banished	[ 3]
II.	About Crossing the Water	[ 20]
III.	About New York	[ 50]
IV.	About Shopping and Men	[ 83]
V.	About West Point and Proposals	[ 101]
VI.	About the Park and Love Stories	[ 118]
VII.	About Sky-scrapers and Beautiful Ladies	[ 133]
VIII.	About Newport and Gorgeousness	[ 141]
IX.	About Bathing, a Dress, and an Earl	[ 156]
X.	About a Violet Tea and a Millionaire	[ 170]
XI.	About a Great Affair	[ 180]
XII.	About a Wedding and a Disaster	[ 200]
XIII.	About Running Away	[ 211]
XIV.	About the Twentieth Century Limited and Chicago	[ 223]
XV.	About Seeing Chicago	[ 227]
XVI.	About the Valley Farm	[ 238]
XVII.	About Cows and National Characteristics	[ 253]
XVIII.	About Some Country Folk, and Walker's Emporium	[ 272]
XIX.	About Getting Engaged	[ 289]
XX.	About Jim and the Duke	[ 297]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"I found myself chatting away with those cadets as if I had grown up with them"	[ Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
"He turned around quickly, glanced up and caught my eyes, as I was looking down, quite distressed"	[ 34]
"When I turned to speak to him he was gone ... and I was immediately surrounded by other men asking me for dances"	[ 196]
"I swept past him with my nose in the air, trying to look like mother"	[ 206]
"Mr. Trowbridge took me to the beehives to get some honey and show me what a queen bee is like"	[ 258]
"Jim smiled and kept his seat without the least apparent effort"	[ 302]

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