CONTENTS

PART I
GIRLHOOD
PAGE
Introductory[3]
I.The Girl in "Count Gismond"[15]
II.Pippa Passes
I.Dawn: Pippa[23]
II.Morning: Ottima[36]
III.Noon: Phene[51]
IV.Evening; Night: The Ending of the Day[67]
III.Mildred Tresham[81]
IV.Balaustion[93]
V.Pompilia[122]
PART II
THE GREAT LADY
"My Last Duchess," and "The Flight of the Duchess"[165]
PART III
THE LOVER
I.Lovers Meeting[199]
II.Trouble of Love: The Woman's
I.The Lady in "The Glove"[215]
II.Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron De Nos Jours[224]
III.The Laboratory[233]
IV.In a Year[237]
PART IV
THE WIFE
I.A Woman's Last Word[245]
II.James Lee's Wife[250]
I.She Speaks at the Window[254]
II.By the Fireside[256]
III.In the Doorway[257]
IV.Along the Beach[258]
V.On the Cliff[261]
VI.Reading a Book, under the Cliff[262]
VII.Among the Rocks[266]
VIII.Beside the Drawing-board[268]
IX.On Deck[271]
PART V
TROUBLE OF LOVE: THE MAN'S
I.The Woman Unwon[277]
II.The Woman Won[304]