PATRICIA BRENT, SPINSTER

BY
HERBERT JENKINS

HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
3 YORK STREET, LONDON S.W.1
1918

A
HERBERT
JENKINS'
BOOK

Fifteenth printing completing 153,658 copies
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
PURNELL AND SONS, PAULTON (SOMERSET) AND LONDON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [PATRICIA'S INDISCRETION]
II. [THE BONSOR-TRIGGS' MENAGE]
III. [THE ADVENTURE AT THE QUADRANT GRILL-ROOM]
IV. [THE MADNESS OF LORD PETER BOWEN]
V. [PATRICIA'S REVENGE]
VI. [THE INTERVENTION OF AUNT ADELAIDE]
VII. [LORD PETER PROMISES A SOLUTION]
VIII. [LORD PETER'S S.O.S.]
IX. [LADY TANAGRA TAKES A HAND]
X. [MISS BRENT'S STRATEGY]
XI. [THE DEFECTION OF MR. TRIGGS]
XII. [A BOMBSHELL]
XIII. [A TACTICAL BLUNDER]
XIV. [GALVIN HOUSE MEETS A LORD]
XV. [MR. TRIGGS TAKES TEA IN KENSINGTON GARDENS]
XVI. [PATRICIA'S INCONSTANCY]
XVII. [LADY PEGGY MAKES A FRIEND]
XVIII. [THE AIR RAID]
XIX. [GALVIN HOUSE AFTER THE RAID]
XX. [A RACE WITH SPINSTERHOOD]
XXI. [THE GREATEST INDISCRETION]

WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT

Patricia Brent is a "paying guest" at the Galvin House Residential Hotel. One day she overhears two of her fellow "guests" pitying her because she "never has a nice young man to take her out."

In a thoughtless moment of anger she announced that on the following night she is dining at the Quadrant with her fiancé. When in due course she enters the grill-room, she finds some of Galvin Houseites there to watch her. Rendered reckless by the thought of the humiliation of being found out, she goes up to a young staff-officer, and asks him to help her by "playing up."