PART II

PUNCH

IX Morelli Breaks Some Crockery and Plays a Little Music 167

X In Which Everyone Feels the After Effect of the Picnic 196

XI Of Love—and Therefore to be Skipped by All Those Who are Tired of the Subject 216

XII Our Middle-aged Hero is Burdened by Responsibility but Boldly Undertakes the Adventure 230

XIII More of the Itinerant Optimist; Alice du Cane Asks Maradick a Favour 256

XIV Maradick in a New Rôle—He Afterwards Sees Tony’s Face in a Mirror 279

XV Why It Is to be the Twenty-seventh, and what the Connexion was Between Janet’s Being Frightened and Toby’s Joining the Great Majority 297