TO

MY FRIEND

Miss Grace Wheeler

CONTENTS

I.[Frosted Cakes and Shotguns]
II.[An Only Son]
III.[Honeymoon Days]
IV.[Nest-building]
V.[The Wife]
VI.[The Husband]
VII.[Stumbling-blocks]
VIII.[Diverging Ways]
IX.[A Bottle of Ink]
X.[By Advice of Counsel]
XI.[In Quest of the Stars]
XII.[The Trail of the Ink]
XIII.[A Woman's Won't]
XIV.[An Understudy]
XV.[A Woman's Will]
XVI.[Emergencies]
XVII.[Pink Teas to Flighty Blondes]
XVIII.[A Little Bunch of Diaries]
XIX.[The Stage is set]
XX.[The Curtain rises]
XXI.[The Play begins]
XXII.[Actor and Audience]
XXIII.["The Plot thickens"]
XXIV.[Counter-plots]
XXV.[Enigmas]
XXVI.[The Road to Understanding]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[At sight of her the doctor leaped forward with a low cry]
[He was looking at her lovely, glorified face]
[John Denby went straight to his son and laid both hands on his shoulders]
["So I rang the bell"]