CONTENTS

The Judas Tree

Strange Discoveries

In Brixham Harbour

A Party

Sickert at St Peter’s

A Picture in the Snow

Evergreen Seaton-Leverett

A Fragment of a Life Story

Leaves from a Young Person’s Notebook

Faces at the Stage Door

Wainwright Home

Fat Woman Sleeping in a Wood

Touchett’s Party

The War Breaks Out

Velvet

The Fire in the Wood

A Dream of Vestals

Fear

Cupids from a Wedgwood Jar from a Bartolozzi Print from a Drawing by Lady Di Beauclerk

Memories of a Vanished Period

Man in a Garden

A Morning with the Versatile Peer, Lord Berners, in the ‘Ancient Seat of Learning’

A Mews Flat in the Country

A Lunch Appointment

Reading My First Review—in Spring

Brave and Cruel

In the Vast House

John Trevor

Full Circle

Roger Saw the Man

The Cottage After Dark

Roger Lay on the Cliff

Weekend

Amy Lechworth

Lady Gertrude

Constance, Lady Willet

Anna Dillon

Alex Fairburn

The Hateful Word

The Diamond Badge

When I Lie Awake

In the Autumn Weather

The Secret Life

The Window

Two Cows

A Postscript

About the Author