CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I. The Inaugural Ball[7]
II. New Names for Old Acquaintances[21]
III. Idle Suspicion[32]
IV. Ties From Other Days[44]
V. Something Unexpected[55]
VI. The First Disillusion[66]
VII. A New Interest[79]
VIII. "Bobbin"[91]
IX. Back in New Hampshire[101]
X. Loneliness[110]
XI. A Meeting and an Explanation[120]
XII. The Way Home[132]
XIII. "A Little Rift Within the Lute"[140]
XIV. Suspicion[150]
XV. Waiting to Find Out[160]
XVI. A Talk That Was Not an Explanation[172]
XVII. Christmas[180]
XVIII. The Stupidity of Men[191]
XIX. A Cry in the Night[201]
XX. The Discovery[212]
XXI. Once More in Concord[221]
XXII. Things Are Cleared Up[230]
XXIII. Finis[244]