PART I

CHAPTER PAGE

I. GEORGINA BEGINS HER MEMOIRS 13

II. THE MISUNDERSTOOD 'TEENS 26

III. IN THE SHADOW OF WAR 37

IV. HER IDEAL GIRL STEPS IN 46

V. A PHOTOGRAPH AND SOME DAY-DREAMS 56

VI. THE ONE AND ONLY STAR 66

VII. A MODERN SIR GARETH 79

VIII. DISILLUSIONED 91

IX. SEVEN MONTHS LATER 104

X. AT HARRINGTON HALL 116

XI. THE MIDSHIPMAN HOP 126

XII. "SHOD GOES SURE" 140

XIII. A WORK-A-DAY VACATION 151