+ − Booklist 16:272 My ’20
“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she) tried.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 300w
“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p405 Je 24 ’20 340w
COBB, THOMAS. Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
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Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention. Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.