Copyright, 1906, by
Fox Duffield & Company

Published, March, 1906

The Trow Press, N. Y.

To American Ladies & Gentlemen of prodigious Quality

To
Minerva
and
Virginia


Pictures

"Those ancestry books are a standard joke with us"[Frontispiece]
Facing page
"How lovely she is, Juma!"[18]
"My Julie saw them kissing less than an hour ago on the marine parade"[80]
"The lady of the banished portrait was moving through the doorway"[110]