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A repeated dream seems to name the Derby winner, but one omitted detail leaves a house party betting on the wrong breakfast.
Cornered by the club bore, a quiet reader discovers that the best defense may be a better, bigger story.
A shy hotel guest helps a titled stranger recover her lost identity, one expensive social test at a time.
Two hostesses compete to keep valuable guests while an outspoken young heir makes himself impossible under every roof.
At a racing-mad house party, a disapproving hostess makes betting taboo while her guests scramble for a secret tip.
A young gambler presents her mother with an impossible debt and an unexpected proposal for settling it.
A political hopeful congratulates himself on exposing a train-carriage swindler—until two small details unsettle his triumph.
A Christmas house party asks guests to stay in character, and two players pursue realism far beyond the hostess's expectations.
A reform meant to modernize an election collides with old customs and one candidate’s exceptionally large household.
A fashionable aunt adopts a charming young man of uncertain background and learns how quickly luxury can educate him.
Facing exile after Christmas, Bertie locks his family in the cow-house and turns their pious midnight outing into his own celebration.
A government desperate to win a by-election discovers that releasing a popular saboteur can be harder than imprisoning him.
A proud mother praises her children to Clovis, who answers every virtue with a reason to distrust it.
Clovis argues that commerce does not create romance; it only prices, files, and buries what wanderers bring home.
A ridiculous music-hall refrain becomes London's obsession, upsetting one family's ideas about achievement.
A respectable widow follows an old admirer into the wilderness, where love, comfort, and civilization prove incompatible.
A timid bachelor leaves a church bazaar with a fox terrier and discovers which of them is really the master.
A cynical park-goer tests a stranger's hard-luck story against one missing bar of soap.
A fox hunt goes astray when two riders acquire an unexpected companion whose friendliness conceals a savage appetite.
A cash-strapped host’s communal house party thrives because one guest is universally detested—and may be more useful than she seems.
A penniless gambler stakes more than he can pay on a “sure” billiards match and searches for any way to stop the score.
A struggling artist rescues a financier’s disastrous breakfast food with one brilliantly grim advertisement.
Bored by rural life and his wife’s endless translation, a rector invents a Persian poet whose fame can safely last until the war ends.
A sheltered woman enters political society armed only with novels and local newspapers, and finds villains everywhere she looks.
