CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Waiting for the Lamp | [7] |
| II. | Retrospective | [21] |
| III. | A Question of Taste | [33] |
| IV. | Lady Hildegarde’s Photograph | [63] |
| V. | We get into Society | [83] |
| VI. | A Visit of Seven Minutes | [95] |
| VII. | Four in a Fly | [118] |
| VIII. | The Chalgrove Eyebrows | [137] |
| IX. | “We need not Ask if You have Enjoyed Yourself” | [158] |
| X. | “Who are these Chalgroves?” | [179] |
| XI. | Mrs. Mound’s Opinion | [193] |
| XII. | “Indian Papers, Please Copy” | [203] |
| XIII. | Kind Inquiries | [223] |
| XIV. | “Miss Hayes, I believe?” | [240] |
| XV. | A New Station of Life | [255] |
CHAPTER I.
WAITING FOR THE LAMP.
“Too early for the lamp, I suppose, and yet too dark to read a line.” And my stepmother closed her novel, with an impatient snap, as she added, “This is the worst of these horrid, poky lodgings; one never can have anything at the time one wants it. What a dismal little den it is, Gwen! What possessed us to come here?”