LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["We can't talk here," he said. "We must go elsewhere."]
[At sight of him she flashed to her feet.]
["Oh, my dear! I didn't know!"]
[Barry and Jane gazed at her wide-eyed.]
["I want a job in the chorus."]
["It isn't quite so much your style, is it?"]
["Don't you know that that was Rose Aldrich?"]
["What earthly thing does it matter whose fault it is?"]
["You're a good friend," she said.]

BOOK ONE

The Great Illusion

CHAPTER I

A POINT OF DEPARTURE

"Indeed," continued the professor, glancing demurely down at his notes, "if one were the editor of a column of—er advice to young girls, such as I believe is to be found, along with the household hints and the dress patterns, on the ladies' page of most of our newspapers—if one were the editor of such a column, he might crystallize the remarks I have been making this morning into a warning—never marry a man with a passion for principles."