Philippa

by Mrs Molesworth

Contents

[Good-Byes]
[“What?” said Philippa]
[“So Unlike Her”]
[Fellow-Travellers]
[“Solomon”]
[“Miss Ray”]
[A Successful Début]
[A Morning Ramble]
[Mingled Feelings]
[“Merle-in-the-Wold”]
[A Cold Nose]
[An Appeal]
[Herself Again]
[Charley’s plan]
[Maida at Fault]
[Sunshiny Days]
[“Rencontres”]
[A Torn Frill]
[Good News]
[A Visitor in a Hansom]
[Circumstances]
[On the Way to the Fish-Ponds]
[Ended]
[Charley’s Friend]

Illustrations

[“Philippa already! How nice!”]
[“I beg your pardon; I never saw Solomon take such liberties before.”]
[“You will bewitch my father, I am sure.”]
[His presence was first revealed to the weeping girl by the touch of a cold nose on her hand.]
[Looking for all the world like the everyday Philippa.]
[So he stepped forward with quiet matter-of-fact ease to greet her.]
[To her the whole scene was almost one of enchantment.]
[“May I show myself in?” said a voice in the doorway.]

Chapter One.
Good-Byes.

Autumn—scarcely late autumn yet—and the day had been mild. But as the afternoon wore on towards evening, there came the chilliness and early gloom inevitable at the fall of the year—accompanied, to those who are sensitive to such things, by the indescribable touch of melancholy never present in the same way at other seasons.