Victor Gollancz Ltd

THE SCENE A dug-out in the British trenches before St. Quentin. A few rough steps lead into the trench above, through a low doorway. A table occupies a good space of the dug-out floor. A wooden frame, covered with wire netting, stands against the left wall and serves the double purpose of a bed...

Three miles from Ferncleft, on the coast, was the castle of Glii^ey, a large distinguished building composed in many styles in a kind of stammering creative reverie by the family of lords who had lived there for three centuries, adding a bit here and there until they sold out to an ascendant...

CURL UP AND DIETSome ladies smoke too much and some ladiesdrink too much and some ladies pray too much, But all ladies think that they weigh too much. They may be as slender as a sylph or a dryad, But just let them get on the scales and they embark ona doleful jeremiad; No matter how low the figure...