DODO'S DAUGHTER
DODO'S
DAUGHTER
A SEQUEL TO DODO
BY
E. F. BENSON
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1914
Copyright, 1913, by
The Century Co.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I |
| CHAPTER II |
| CHAPTER III |
| CHAPTER IV |
| CHAPTER V |
| CHAPTER VI |
| CHAPTER VII |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| CHAPTER IX |
| CHAPTER X |
| CHAPTER XI |
| CHAPTER XII |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| CHAPTER XIV |
DODO'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER I
Nadine Waldenech's bedroom was a large square apartment on the groundfloor at her mother's cottage at Meering in North Wales. It was rather alarge cottage, for it was capable of holding about eighteen people, butDodo was quite firm in the subject of its not being a house. In the dayswhen it was built, forty years ago, this room of Nadine's had been thesmoking-room, but since everybody now smoked wherever he or she chose,which was mostly everywhere, just as they breathed or talked whereverthey chose, Nadine with her admirable commonsense had argued uselessnessof a special smoking-room, for she wanted it very much herself, and hermother had been quite convinced. It opened out of the drawing-room, andso was a convenient place for those who wished to drop in for a littlemore conversation after bed-time had been officially proclaimed.Bed-time, it may be remarked, was only officially proclaimed in order toget rid of bores, who then secluded themselves in their tiresomechambers.
The room at this period was completely black with[Pg 4] regard to the colorof carpet and floor and walls and ceiling. That was Nadine's last planand since it was the last, of necessity, a very recent one. She hadobserved that when it was all white, people looked rather discolored,like mud on snow, whereas against a black background they seemed to beof gem-like brilliance. But since