by P. G. Wodehouse
1920
Contents
Chapter I A Pawn of Fate
Chapter II Ruth States Her Intentions
Chapter III The Mates Meet
Chapter IV Troubled Waters
Chapter V Wherein Opposites Agree
Chapter VI Breaking the News
Chapter VII Sufficient Unto Themselves
Chapter VIII Suspense
Chapter IX The White Hope is Turned Down
Chapter X An Interlude of Peace
Chapter XI Stung to Action
Chapter XII A Climax
Chapter I Empty-handed
Chapter II An Unknown Path
Chapter III The Misadventure of Steve
Chapter IV The Widening Gap
Chapter V The Real Thing
Chapter VI The Outcasts
Chapter VII Cutting the Tangled Knot
Chapter VIII Steve to the Rescue
Chapter IX At One in the Morning
Chapter X Accepting the Gifts of the Gods
Chapter XI Mr. Penway on the Grill
Chapter XII Dolls with Souls
Chapter XIII Pastures New
Chapter XIV The Sixty-First Street Cyclone
Chapter XV Mrs. Porter's Waterloo
Chapter XVI The White-Hope Link
BOOK ONE
Mrs. Lora Delane Porter dismissed the hireling who had brought her
automobile around from the garage and seated herself at the wheel. It
was her habit to refresh her mind and improve her health by a daily
drive between the hours of two and four in the afternoon.
The world knows little of its greatest women, and it is possible that
Mrs. Porter's name is not familiar to you. If this is the case, I am
pained, but not surprised. It happens only too often that the uplifter
of the public mind is baulked by a disinclination on the part of the
public mind to meet him or her half-way. The uplifter does his share.
He produces the uplifting book. But the public, instead of standing
