★ Short Description about book ★

My dear Dorothy,

As I think you know, this book was finished in the month of August, 1914. I did not look at it again until I revised it during my convalescence after an illness in the autumn of 1915.

We are now in a world very different from that with which this story deals, and it must, I am afraid, appear slow in development and uneventful in movement, belonging, in style and method and subject, to a day that seems to us already old-fashioned.

But I will frankly confess that I have too warm a personal affection for Katherine, Philip, Henry and Millicent to be able to destroy utterly the signs and traditions of their existence, nor can I feel my book to be quite old-fashioned when the love of England, which I have tried to make the text of it, has in many of us survived so triumphantly changes and catastrophes and victories that have shaken into ruin almost every other faith we held.

Let this be my excuse for giving you, with my constant affection, this uneventful story.



★ CONTENTS ★



BOOK I: THE RAID

CHAPTER I: THE CEREMONY

CHAPTER II: THE WINTER AFTERNOON

CHAPTER III: KATHERINE

CHAPTER IV: THE FOREST

CHAPTER V: THE FINEST THING

CHAPTER VI: THE SHOCK

BOOK II: THE FEATHER BED

CHAPTER I: KATHERINE IN LOVE

CHAPTER II: MRS. TRENCHARD

CHAPTER III: LIFE AND HENRY

CHAPTER IV: GARTH IN ROSELANDS

CHAPTER V: THE FEAST

CHAPTER VI: SUNDAY

CHAPTER VII: ROCHE ST. MARY MOOR

BOOK III: KATHERINE AND ANNA

CHAPTER I: KATHERINE ALONE

CHAPTER II: THE MIRROR

CHAPTER III: ANNA AND MRS. TRENCHARD