By
STEPHEN McKENNA
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First published 1922.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE SENSATIONALISTS
Part III: The Secret Victory
THE SENSATIONALISTS
Part II: The Education of Eric Lane
THE SENSATIONALISTS
Part I: Lady Lilith
SONIA MARRIED
MIDAS AND SON
NINETY-SIX HOURS' LEAVE
SONIA
THE SIXTH SENSE
SHEILA INTERVENES
THE RELUCTANT LOVER
* * *
WHILE I REMEMBER
To
LORD AND LADY BEAUCHAMP
In Gratitude for their Hospitality
at Walmer Castle, where this book was begun,
and at Madresfield Court, where it was finished.
Cusins: Do you call poverty a crime?
Undershaft: The worst of crimes ... Poverty ... strikesdead the very souls of all who come within sight,sound or smell of it....
BERNARD SHAW: Major Barbara.
CONTENTS
1. Lady Ann Spenworth Prefers Not to Discuss Her Operation
2. She Repudiates all Responsibility
3. She Touches Reluctantly on Divorce
4. She is Content with a Little Music
5. She Refuses to Become a Match-Maker
6. She Holds the Corps Diplomatique to its Duty
7. She Deplores Proposals by Women
9. She Narrates an Embarrassment Averted
10. She as a Prisoner in Her own House
11. She Finds Her Heart Warming
12. She Defends Her Consistency
THE CONFESSIONS OF A WELL-MEANING WOMAN
Lady Ann (to a friend of proved discretion):You have toiled all the way here again? Doyou know, I feel I am only beginning to findout who are the true friends? I am much,much better... On Friday I am to beallowed on to the sofa and by the end of nextweek Dr. Richardson promises to let me goback to Mount Street. Of course I should haveliked the operation to take place there—it isone's frame and setting, but, truly honestly,Arthur and I have not been i