CONTENTS

PART I

THE ROOM OF THE MINSTRELS

I The Place [11]
II In Which Our Hero and the Place Meet
Once Again [13]
III In Which the Admonitus Locorum Begins to
Have Fun with Two Entirely Respectable
Members of Society [28]
IV In Which the Aforesaid Admonitus Leads
the Aforesaid Members of Society a Dance [53]
V Maradick Makes a Promise and Meets an
Itinerant Optimist [79]
VI Supper with Janet Morelli [103]
VII Maradick Learns that “Getting a View”
May Have Its Dangers as Well as Its
Rewards [125]
VIII They All Eat Chicken in the Gorse and Fly
Before the Storm [136]

PART II

PUNCH

IX Morelli Breaks Some Crockery and Plays a
Little Music [167]
X In Which Everyone Feels the After Effect
of the Picnic [196]
XI Of Love—and Therefore to be Skipped by All
Those Who are Tired of the Subject [216]
XII Our Middle-aged Hero is Burdened by Responsibility
but Boldly Undertakes the Adventure [230]
XIII More of the Itinerant Optimist; Alice du
Cane Asks Maradick a Favour [256]
XIV Maradick in a New Rôle—He Afterwards
Sees Tony’s Face in a Mirror [279]
XV Why It Is to be the Twenty-seventh, and
what the Connexion was Between Janet’s
Being Frightened and Toby’s Joining
the Great Majority [297]

PART III

THE TOWER