Lady Betty Across the Water

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	About Being Banished	[ 3]
II.	About Crossing the Water	[ 20]
III.	About New York	[ 50]
IV.	About Shopping and Men	[ 83]
V.	About West Point and Proposals	[ 101]
VI.	About the Park and Love Stories	[ 118]
VII.	About Sky-scrapers and Beautiful Ladies	[ 133]
VIII.	About Newport and Gorgeousness	[ 141]
IX.	About Bathing, a Dress, and an Earl	[ 156]
X.	About a Violet Tea and a Millionaire	[ 170]
XI.	About a Great Affair	[ 180]
XII.	About a Wedding and a Disaster	[ 200]
XIII.	About Running Away	[ 211]
XIV.	About the Twentieth Century Limited and Chicago	[ 223]
XV.	About Seeing Chicago	[ 227]
XVI.	About the Valley Farm	[ 238]
XVII.	About Cows and National Characteristics	[ 253]
XVIII.	About Some Country Folk, and Walker's Emporium	[ 272]
XIX.	About Getting Engaged	[ 289]
XX.	About Jim and the Duke	[ 297]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"I found myself chatting away with those cadets as if I had grown up with them"	[ Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
"He turned around quickly, glanced up and caught my eyes, as I was looking down, quite distressed"	[ 34]
"When I turned to speak to him he was gone ... and I was immediately surrounded by other men asking me for dances"	[ 196]
"I swept past him with my nose in the air, trying to look like mother"	[ 206]
"Mr. Trowbridge took me to the beehives to get some honey and show me what a queen bee is like"	[ 258]
"Jim smiled and kept his seat without the least apparent effort"	[ 302]

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ABOUT BEING BANISHED

I don't know yet whether I'm pleased or not, but I do know that I'm excited—more excited than I've ever been in my life, except perhaps when Miss Mackinstry, my last governess, had hysterics in the schoolroom and fainted among the tea things.