PART ONE
I Preamble—Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper—A
Balcony is Heard Closing—A Cricket Chirps
II Doña Casiana's House—A Morning Ceremony—Conspiracy—Wherein is Discussed The Nutritive Value of Bones—Petra and Her Family—Manuel; his Arrival in Madrid
III First Impressions of Madrid—The Boarders—Idyll—Sweet and
Delightful Lessons
IV Oh, Love, Love!—What's Don Telmo Doing?—Who is Don
Telmo?—Wherein the Student and Don Telmo Assume Certain Novelesque
Proportions