Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
I.An Audacious Proposition [3]
II.Measurements [12]
III.Shopping with a Chaperon [17]
IV.The Cost of Frocks [23]
V.Muslins and Tackhammers [30]
VI.A Question of Identity [36]
VII.An Argument Without Logic [46]
VIII.On Account of the Tea-Kettle [57]
IX.A Bishop and a Hay-Wagon [69]
X.On a Threshold [80]
XII.The Bachelor Begs a Dish-Towel [101]
XIII.Smoke and Talk [114]
XIV.Strawberries [120]
XV.Anthony Plays Maid [136]
XVI.A House-Party—Outdoors [144]
XVII.Rachel Causes Anxiety [155]
XVIII.An Unknown Quantity [164]
XIX.All the April Stars Are Out [175]
XX.A Prior Claim [181]
XXI.Everybody Gives Advice [191]
XXII.Roger Barnes Proves Invaluable [201]
XXIII.Two Not of a Kind [215]
XXIV.The Careys Are at Home [233]
XXV.The Robeson Will [246]
XXVI.On Guard [266]
XXVII.Lockwood Pays a Call [282]
XXVIII.A High-Handed Affair [294]
XXIX.Juliet Proves Herself Still Indifferent [303]

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

Horatio Marcy, an elderly New Englander of some wealth.

Anthony Robeson, the last young male representative of the Kentucky Robesons, now making his own way in Massachusetts.

Wayne Carey, Robeson’s former college chum, an office clerk on a salary.

Dr. Roger Williams Barnes, a surgeon.