Bibliographical Note
First publication: Mills & Boon, London, 1923
The original edition was published with the subtitle
A Comedy of Manners,
and the author used the pseudonym Stella Martin.
The book was later published as Powder and Patch,
with Chapter Twenty deleted.
One | The House of Jettan |
Two | In Which Is Presented Mistress Cleone Charteris |
Three | Mr. Bancroft Brings Trouble into Little Fittledean |
Four | The Trouble Comes to a Head |
Five | In Which Philip Finds That His Uncle Is More Sympathetic Than His Father |
Six | The Beginning of the Transformation |
Seven | Mr. Bancroft Comes to Paris and Is Annoyed |
Eight | In Which Philip Delivers Himself of a Rondeau |
Nine | Mr. Bancroft Is Enraged |
Ten | In Which a Letter Is Read |
Eleven | Philip Astonishes His Uncle |
Twelve | Philip Plays a Dangerous Game |
Thirteen | Sir Maurice Comes to Town |
Fourteen | The Strange Behaviour of Mistress Cleone |
Fifteen | Lady Malmerstoke on Husbands |
Sixteen | Mistress Cleone Finds There Is No Safety in Numbers |
Seventeen | Mistress Cleone at Her Wits' End |
Eighteen | Philip Takes Charge of the Situation |
Nineteen | Philip Justifies His Chin |
Twenty | Mademoiselle de Chaucheron Rings Down the Curtain |
If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurstand Brighthelmstone, inland a little, and nestling in modest seclusionbetween two waves of hills, you would find Little Fittledean, a villageround which three gentlemen had built their homes. One chose the northside, half a mile away, and on the slope of the