THE RECESSIONAL
A MATTER OF SENTIMENT
THE SECRET SIX OF SEPTIMUS BROPE
"MINISTERS OF GRACE"
THE REMOULDING OF GROBY LINGTON
ACKNOWLEDGMENT




ESMÉ



"All hunting stories are the same," said Clovis; "just as all Turf
stories are the same, and all--"

"My hunting story isn't a bit like any you've ever heard," said
the Baroness. "It happened quite a while ago, when I was about
twenty-three. I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you
see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate
allowance. In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty
keeps together more homes than it breaks up. But we always hunted
with different packs. All this has nothing to do with the story."

"We haven't arrived at the meet yet. I suppose there was a meet,"
said Clovis.

"Of course there was a meet," said the Baroness; all the usual
crowd were there, especially Constance Broddle. Constance is one