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A reluctant hostess turns a demanded political lunch into a carefully staged case of mistaken identity.
A missing baby, a faith healer, and an identical child turn a family search into a problem no miracle has prepared anyone to solve.
After a lunchtime quarrel, Egbert tries to end his wife’s prolonged silence while the household animals look on.
When a rich, boastful cousin flaunts an expensive fur, Margaret Sangrail turns tea, fashion, and invention into a private market.
A park-bench beggar tries to tell his story to a stranger who insists on supplying the better fiction.
Mistaken for a governess, Lady Carlotta accepts the role and tests a fashionable theory of making history vivid for children.
A solemn expert on church architecture is overheard declaring love to “Florrie,” and Clovis uncovers a scandal no one imagined.
A couple welcomes a rich cousin reputed to steal, then makes a disastrous discovery inside his locked suitcase.
A dull commuter wins attention with an invented tale, then discovers the cost of becoming known as a liar.
A practical errand becomes evidence in a comic argument that going shopping and actually buying something are not the same.
A boastful mystic meets his match when a house party requests a transformation and Clovis supplies the necessary wolf.
A cattle painter is asked to remove an ox from a neighbor’s garden and discovers that artistic expertise has practical limits.
Clovis tells of a pagan king, a rebellious young heir, and a martyrdom whose miracle proves less simple than history records.
Outnumbered by old enemies at a children’s party, Rollo turns games, stolen peaches, and imaginary chocolates to his advantage.
Hearing a stranger complain of too much routine, Clovis prescribes an unrest cure involving a bishop, telegrams, and an imminent atrocity.
A London newspaper sends its entire staff to Central Asia, then seems to return with a style so strange that the government demands answers.
A house party celebrates a cat taught to speak, until Tobermory repeats what he has heard from windows and under chairs.
A devout young duke puts an angelic solution to Britain’s political quarrels into practice, with consequences no statesman could predict.
The masked president of a future Western dictatorship opens talks with his Asian rival, then learns that his purges have missed the real infiltrators.
