LILY ....................................... " 12.

KATHLEEN.................................... " 14.

LUCILLA..................................... " 15.

VIOLET ..................................... " 16.

DORA (who has the keys and is housekeeper)... " 17.

EGYPT (so called from her dark eyes) ....... " 17.

JESSIE (who somehow always makes the room
look brighter when she is in it) ........... " 18.

MARY (of whom everybody, including the Old
Lecturer, is in great awe) ................. " 20.





PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.


I have seldom been more disappointed by the result of my best
pains given to any of my books, than by the earnest request of my
publisher, after the opinion of the public had been taken on the
"Ethics of the Dust," that I would "write no more in dialogue!"
However, I bowed to public judgment in this matter at once