CONTENTS

PAGE
FOREWORD[i]
PREFACE[v]
[PART I]
CHAPTER
IMARCEL’S HOMECOMING[1]
IIBROTHER AND SISTER[26]
IIITHE BATTLE OF FLOWERS[47]
IVA MORNING AT LA CHÊNAIE[63]
VALICE’S SECRET[85]
VIMONSIEUR AND MADAME DULAURENS[106]
VIITHE PROPOSAL[127]
VIIITHE CONSPIRATORS[148]
IXTHE FAREWELL[167]
XMARCEL’S DEPARTURE[177]
[PART II]
ITHIRTEEN AT TABLE[191]
IITHE POLICEMAN’S MESSAGE[219]
IIINIOBE[240]
IVTHE PAGEANTRY OF DEATH[252]
VJEAN[276]
VIISABELLE[296]
VIIPAULE’S SECRET[315]
VIIIMADAME GUIBERT[335]
IXTHE MIRACLE OF THE ROSES[348]
XNIOBE’S LAST CHILD[360]
XIPEACE[376]