PAUL STOOD BY HER, LOOKING DOWN INTO HER EYES, BENDING OVER HER, SMILING, PRESSING, CONFIDENT, MASTERFUL (PAGE 96)
| THE SQUIRREL-CAGE BY DOROTHY CANFIELD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN ALONZO WILLIAMS NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1912 |
Copyright, 1911, 1912
by
THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
Copyright, 1912
by
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published March, 1912
CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE FAIRY PRINCESS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| I | An American Family | [3] | |
| II | American Beauties | [12] | |
| III | Picking up the Threads | [22] | |
| IV | The Dawn | [32] | |
| V | The Day Begins | [42] | |
| VI | Lydia’s Godfather | [55] | |
| VII | Outside the Labyrinth | [61] | |
| VIII | The Shadow of the Coming Event | [78] | |
| IX | Father and Daughter | [88] | |
| X | Casus Belli | [99] |
BOOK II
IN THE LOCOMOTIVE CAB
| XI | What is Best for Lydia | [115] | |
| XII | A Sop to the Wolves | [122] | |
| XIII | Lydia Decides in Perfect Freedom | [131] | |
| XIV | Mid-Season Nerves | [139] | |
| XV | A Half-Hour’s Liberty | [154] | |
| XVI | Engaged to Be Married | [165] | |
| XVII | Card-Dealing and Patent Candles | [177] |
BOOK III
A SUITABLE MARRIAGE
| XVIII | Two Sides to the Question | [193] | |
| XIX | Lydia’s New Motto | [207] | |
| XX | An Evening’s Entertainment | [215] | |
| XXI | An Element of Solidity | [226] | |
| XXII | The Voices in the Wood | [233] | |
| XXIII | For Ariadne’s Sake | [244] | |
| XXIV | “Through Pity and Terror Effecting a Purification of the Heart” | [261] | |
| XXV | A Black Milestone | [270] | |
| XXVI | A Hint from Childhood | [277] | |
| XXVII | Lydia Reaches Her Goal and has Her Talk with Her Husband | [289] | |
| XXVIII | “the American Man” | [307] | |
| XXIX | “... in Tragic Life, God Wot, No Villain Need Be. Passions Spin the Plot.” | [318] | |
| XXX | Tribute to the Minotaur | [327] |
BOOK IV
BUT IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR ARIADNE
| XXXI | Protection from the Minotaur | [337] | |
| XXXII | As Ariadne Saw it | [342] | |
| XXXIII | What is Best for the Children? | [351] | |
| XXXIV | Through the Long Night | [359] | |
| XXXV | The Swaying Balance | [365] | |
| XXXVI | Another Day Begins | [369] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Paul stood by her, looking down into her eyes, bending over her, smiling, pressing, confident, masterful (page 96) | [Frontispiece] | |
| PAGE | ||
| “You say beautiful things!” he replied quietly. “My rough quarters are glorified for me.” | [68] | |
| “No, no; I can't—see him—I can't see him any more—” | [136] | |
| “I see everything now,” she went on. “He could not stop” | [272] | |