Category: Novels

Passing By

I went to the station this morning to see the Housmans off. They are leaving for Egypt and intend to stay there a month or perhaps two months. They are stopping a few days at Paris on the way.

Chapters

11. Part 11

I don't know what to think. Why did she go to London? Why did she stay at Garland's Hotel? The Campden Hill house isn't shut up. Miss Housman talked about going there. Did the l...

1. Part 1

I went to the station this morning to see the Housmans off. They are leaving for Egypt and intend to stay there a month or perhaps two months. They are stopping a few days at Pa...

3. Part 3

Riley arrived last night. He has been in Paris for the last three months working at the _Bibliothèque Nationale_. He told me he had something of importance to tell me: that he w...

2. Part 2

A. sat between Mrs Housman and Lady Simcox. Housman had the Princesse de Carignan on his right and Lady Maria on his left. I sat between Lady Maria and Miss Housman. Lady Maria...

6. Part 6

Except Lady Jarvis, they are all extraordinarily optimistic about George and think that there is nothing in the Housman thing and that it will pass off and he will marry Lavinia...

7. Part 7

I went for a walk by myself. When I got back I found various people at the villa and escaped to my room. Mrs Fairburn came to dinner. When Housman said he had been suffering fro...

4. Part 4

_P.S_.--Just got your telegram. I am delighted you are coming to London. I particularly wanted you to meet Mrs Housman--and "Bert." You must come. And now I shall just be able t...

9. Part 9

Lady Jarvis arrives to-morrow. We continued _Les Misérables_ in the afternoon and after dinner. Mrs Housman said that some conversations and the reading of certain passages in b...

5. Part 5

Housman arrived unexpectedly with Carrington-Smith this afternoon. Carrington-Smith seems depressed about his coming divorce. Mrs Housman was out sailing with A. and they did no...

10. Part 10

I asked Tuke where and how one could find a priest who would be able to tell one the rules of the Church with regard to marriage. Tuke said any of the Fathers at Farm Street or...

8. Part 8

A. is not at all well. He says he has got a bad headache, but he has to go to an official dinner to-night. He is also most annoyed at having been chosen as a delegate to the Con...

12. Part 12

I have just come back from Rosedale. There is no one there except Godfrey. Lady Jarvis told us that Mrs Housman has finished the first period you told me about, and has taken th...