The Confessions of a Well-Meaning Woman
By
STEPHEN McKENNA
❦
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
To
LORD AND LADY BEAUCHAMP
In Gratitude for their Hospitality
at Walmer Castle, where this book was begun,
and at Madresfield Court, where it was finished.
- Cusins: Do you call poverty a crime?
- Undershaft: The worst of crimes . . . Poverty . . . strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it. . . .
CONTENTS
page
1. Lady Ann Spenworth Prefers Not to Discuss Her Operation |
1 |
2. She Repudiates all Responsibility |
26 |
3. She Touches Reluctantly on Divorce |
51 |
4. She is Content with a Little Music |
77 |
5. She Refuses to Become a Match-maker |
103 |
6. She Holds the corps diplomatique to its duty |
128 |
7. She Deplores Proposals by Women |
153 |
8. She Refers to Her Diary |
178 |
9. She Narrates an Embarrassment Averted |
202 |
10. She is a Prisoner in Her own House |
228 |
11. She Finds Her Heart Warming |
253 |
12. She Defends Her Consistency |
277 |
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