Category: Novels
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE SHADOWS DANCE 1 II. THE COMING OF THE LUCK 13 III. THE SPELL BEGINS TO WORK 25 IV. THE STORY OF MR. FRANCIS 42 V. A POINT IN CASUISTRY 53 VI. THE POINT SOLVED--THE MEETING 63 VII. THE POINT IN CASUISTRY SOLVES ITSELF 81 VIII. THE SECOND RETURN TO VAIL 95 IX...
Geoffrey, in spite of, or perhaps owing to his anxieties, slept long and late, and it was already after ten when he came half dressed from his bedroom to the adjoining sitting r...
19. CHAPTER XVII"Dear boy, how late you sit up!" said Mr. Francis, coming into the room; "it has already struck one. You were asleep, I think, when I came in, and I was unwilling to awake you....
17. CHAPTER XVHarry left London at the end of the month, paid a couple of visits in England, then went to Scotland for the remainder of August, and loitered there, since he was at the same tw...
14. CHAPTER XIIThe two ladies were to arrive about tea time next day, and, as the hour drew on, a lively restlessness got hold of Harry. He could neither sit, nor stand, nor read, but after a...
23. CHAPTER XXIDr. Armytage, despite Lady Oxted's round and uncompromising definition of him as a dexterous surgeon of sinister repute, proved himself during the next day or two to be far more...
27. CHAPTER XXVIt was about a quarter past eight when Geoffrey left Jim in the secret passage, and, in accordance with his instructions, went back to the box hedge where he had concealed the r...
18. CHAPTER XVIHarry was in the most extravagantly high spirits this morning, and at breakfast the two laughed over the most indifferent trivialities like schoolboys. Stories without wit and o...
21. CHAPTER XIX"Ah! my dear boy," he said, "you were quite right not to come out. The weather was odious; I have never seen such rain. But one feels better, after all, for a breath of air."
24. CHAPTER XXIIHarry was sitting cross-legged on the hearth rug after dinner, poking the fire in an idiotic manner with the tongs. Gun cotton would have smouldered out under so illiterate a st...
20. CHAPTER XVIII"Yes; I did not expect him so soon. But he is only coming for a couple of days, he says. He has taken the flat in Wimpole Street; I suppose he means to go back there."
8. CHAPTER VIDinner was over, and of Lady Oxted's party there only remained by eleven o'clock but a couple of her guests. There was a ball at one house, an evening party at another, a concer...
12. CHAPTER XThe cheerful optimism of Sanders was borne out by events, if not in letter at any rate in spirit, and Harry, on waking, received the most encouraging reports from the sick-room....
25. CHAPTER XXIIIThe doctor entered with the brusqueness of a man who had no knowledge of, or at any rate no regard for, the usages of polite society. He treated Lady Oxted to little more than h...
5. CHAPTER IIIMr. Francis was by choice an early riser, and next morning, before either of the young men were awake, he had been splashing and gasping in his cold tub, had felt with the keene...
16. CHAPTER XIVLady Oxted, in spite of her husband's general reflections upon her character, could not reasonably be called an ungenerous woman; and when, ten days after these last occurrences...
15. CHAPTER XIIIHarry was leaving next morning with the two women, being unable to induce Lady Oxted to stop another day, and in consequence he sat up late that night after they had gone to bed...
11. CHAPTER IXMr. Francis soon joined him for tea, and, after proposing a stroll in ten minutes' time, had gone to his room to answer an urgent letter. Harry was well content to wait, for not...
9. CHAPTER VIILady Oxted always breakfasted in her own room, and before she appeared next morning she had spent a long hour in wrestling over her letter to Mrs. Aylwin. She had been desirous...
10. CHAPTER VIIIIt was the day following Lady Oxted's return to London from the Sunday in the country that she received the expected letter from Mrs. Aylwin, in answer to her own. The opening o...
22. CHAPTER XXDr. Armytage, for whom Harry had telegraphed, arrived about nine that night. He had left London immediately on receipt of the summons without dining, and having seen his patient...
13. CHAPTER XIHarry had held long sessions in his mind as to whether he should or should not ask other people to Vail to meet Lady Oxted and Miss Aylwin at the end of the month. It was but a...
4. CHAPTER IIThe dining room at Vail was of the same antique spaciousness as the hall, and, as there on the lounger, so here on the diner, looked down a spacious company of ancestors. For so...
3. CHAPTER IThe short winter's day was drawing to its close, and twilight, the steel and silver twilight of a windless frost, falling in throbs of clear dusk over an ice-bound land. The sun...
6. CHAPTER IVHarry Vail owned a plain, gloomy house in Cavendish Square, forbidding to those who looked at it from the street, chilling to those who looked at the street from it. It was furn...
7. CHAPTER VOne evening, toward the end of June, Lady Oxted was driving home from Victoria Station, where she had gone to meet the arrival of the Continental express. By her side sat a girl...
1. PART ICHAPTER PAGE I. THE SHADOWS DANCE 1 II. THE COMING OF THE LUCK 13 III. THE SPELL BEGINS TO WORK 25 IV. THE STORY OF MR. FRANCIS 42 V. A POINT IN CASUISTRY 53 VI. THE POINT SOLVE...
2. PART IIXV. FROST 209 XVI. FIRE 234 XVII. A BIRD OF NIGHT 255 XVIII. RAIN 284 XIX. GEOFFREY LEAVES VAIL 302 XX. DR. ARMYTAGE ARRIVES 321 XXI. GEOFFREY MEETS THE DOCTOR 335 XXII. LADY OX...