happiest she has ever known,

this little story is most

affectionately

inscribed

by the

AUTHOR.


Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Which Shall It Be? [13]
II.“A Touch Can Make or a Touch Can Mar” [21]
III.“A Feeling of Sadness and Longing” [29]
IV.New Experiences [41]
V.Two Sides of a Question [53]
VI.Dull and Prosy [63]
VII.The P. U. L. [71]
VIII.Caps and Capers [81]
IX.A Modern Diogenes [89]
X.“They Could Never Deceive Me” [97]
XI.“La Somnambula” [107]
XII.“Have You Not Been Deceived This Time?” [119]
XIII.English as She is Spelled [127]
XIV.“Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells” [135]
XV.“Pride Goeth Before a Fall” [143]
XVI.Letters [153]
XVII.“Haf Anybody Seen My Umbrel?” [161]
XVIII.The Little Hinge [169]
XIX.“Fatal or Fated are Moments” [179]
XX.“Now Tread We a Measure.” [187]
XXI.Conspirators [197]
XXII.“We’ve Got ’em! We’ve Got ’em!“ [205]
XXIII.A Camera’s Capers. [213]
XXIV.Whispers [225]
XXV.“What Are You Doing Up this Time of Night?” [233]
XXVI.“Love (and Schoolgirls) Laugh at Locksmiths” [243]
XXVII.Ariadne’s Clue [253]
XXVIII.“When Buds And Blossoms Burst” [261]
XXIX.Commencement [271]
XXX.“O Fortunate, O Happy Day” [279]