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A bargain hunter brings her dreamy nephew to a department-store sale and learns that he has his own idea of commerce.
As a country-house wing burns, guests debate whether a mysterious daughter is worth risking their very real lives to save.
At an Easter reception for a prince, a lifelong coward sees what no one else notices—and must decide which instinct will prevail.
At a Christmas house party, an ambitious mother tries to turn an elk attack into a marriage alliance under a formidable matriarch’s eye.
Clovis proposes a holiday devoted to grudges, and his aunt quickly discovers how many invitations she could issue.
To remove a romantic rival, Clovis convinces a protective hostess that her prized buzzards are in danger.
On a Roman emperor’s birthday, suffrage protesters seize the circus track and force him to revise the order of entertainment.
A woman who values a quiet life recalls hosting a family enemy, a flood, and a well-fed leopard under one roof.
A clairvoyant hunting a respectable family ghost sees something far less convenient for her hosts.
Clovis must remove an unbudgeable houseguest before her enemy arrives, so he invents a butler with one dangerous delusion.
A destitute wanderer is welcomed at a lonely farm as its disgraced missing heir, but the borrowed identity carries an unknown debt.
An outcast little bird finds shelter in the arms of a stone figure shunned by the cathedral’s other creatures.
Declared neither quite dead nor alive, a young man tours Hell’s new Parliament and discovers how infernal government improves on Westminster.
A rumored book of indiscreet memoirs makes Reginald the target of friends anxious to erase—or improve—their pasts.
Two hereditary enemies meet armed in a storm-dark forest, but nature interrupts their feud before either can strike.
A solemn politician discovers humor, and his wife suspects that every new joke marks a widening distance between them.
A condemned man explains how an impulsive change of clothes made him a suspect in his own murder.
A weary candidate is promised a night without politics, but a supposed flood fills his bedroom with livestock and alarm.
Punished for proving the adults wrong, a sharp-eyed boy turns an afternoon of exclusion into a private campaign of discovery.
A zoo’s improved animal enclosures prompt a niece to compare civilized respectability with a cage no one admits is there.
Clovis decides his widowed mother needs another husband, chiefly so she will stop reforming him.
A mouse inside a fastidious traveler’s clothes forces an impossible choice in a railway compartment shared with a sleeping woman.
At a remote estate where Pan is still honored, a skeptical new wife disturbs an offering and learns that the woods have their own loyalties.
A timid English traveler stranded in a snowbound railcar must rely on a calm peasant woman whose confidence comes at a price.
