ONE DOUBTFUL HOUR AND OTHER SIDE-LIGHTS ON THE FEMININE TEMPERAMENT
BYELLA HEPWORTH DIXON,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE STORY OF A MODERN WOMAN’LONDON GRANT RICHARDS
1904Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh.
TO EUGÉNIE PHILLIPS
MY best thanks are due to the courtesy of the editors of The World, Pall Mall Magazine, Lady's Pictorial, Ladies' Field, and The Yellow Book for permission to reprint these tales, three of which I have rewritten.
Marth 1904.
page: ix
CONTENTS
- ‘ONE DOUBTFUL HOUR 1
- THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DIANA 31
- ITS OWN REWARD 58
- A POLITICAL COMEDY 83
- THE FORTUNE OF FLORA 106
- MLLE. MANKOVICH 136
- THE KIDNAPPING OF PHIL ALTAMORE 156
- WHEN PURFLEET WENT TO THE WAR 182
- ‘THE WORLD'S SLOW STAIN’ 200
- ‘THE SWEET O' THE YEAR’ 221
