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