--HER DEPOSITION--NEW PROPOSAL--AWKWARD--
MILBURD'S RELATION--INVITATION--THE DINNER HOUR--RECOMMENDATION--
DECISION 91

CHAPTER XVI.

FRESH ARRIVALS--DESCRIPTION--A HISTORY 95

CHAPTER XVII.

SUNDAY--SUNDAY REASONS--A CHAMBER DIALOGUE 108

CHAPTER XVIII.

MORE SUNDAY THOUGHTS--IN MY ROOM--A TELEGRAM--IMPOSSIBILITIES--
INTERRUPTION 116

CHAPTER XIX.

THE PROSAIC GENTLEMAN.

A WALK WITH SIGNOR REGNIATI 120

CHAPTER XX.

A SUNDAY CONVERSATION 123

CHAPTER XXI.

COMMENCEMENT OF MY SAYINGS FOR SUNDAYS 130

CHAPTER XXII.

THE PROGRAMME--THE FARCE 136

CHAPTER XXIII.

AFTER THE PERFORMANCE, CONVERSATION COMMENCES 181

CHAPTER XXIV.

CHILVERN'S BALLAD--THE MORAL 191

CHAPTER XXV.

IN AND OUT--BEFORE THE FIRE--MEDITATIONS--SURPRISES--HAPPY THOUGHTS
--AWAKENINGS--SLUMBERS--BELL-PULLS--BOOTS--VALET--DIFFICULTIES--
MRS. REGNIATI--WHAT'S ON THE TAPIS?--MATCH-MAKING--CUPID 198

CHAPTER XXVI.

AT DINNER--WEIGHT--WATCHING--JOKES--PROTEST--AWKWARD SITUATION--AN
ANNOUNCEMENT--INQUIRY--ARRIVAL--PRACTICAL JOKES 206

CHAPTER XXVII.

FIFTH WEEK--DIFFICULTIES--HINTS--BOODELS' SECRET--ARRIVAL OF JIMMY
LAYDER--A CHANGE--PRACTICAL JOKES--PLAYING THE FOOL--DRESSING UP--
MORE JOKES--CHEMICAL LECTURE--EXPERIMENTS--RESULTS--OPEN WINDOWS--
COLDS--DEPARTURES--SMALL BY DEGREES--BEAUTIFULLY LESS--THE SHILLING
AND THE TUMBLER--BOODELS' LAST--TWO'S COMPANY--CONCLUSION 209

HAPPY THOUGHT HALL.

CHAPTER I.

THE IDEA--ADVICE--TITLE--PLAN--ON PAPER--SUGGESTION--COST--BOODELS--
OLD FRIENDS--JENKYNS SOAMES--DESIGNS--STAIRCASES--BAYS--OBJECTIONS--
ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE--STABLES--PRICE--GIVEN UP--CAZELL'S IDEA.

_Happy Thought._--To get a country house for the winter. To fill it with
friends. To have one wing for bachelors. Another wing for maidens with
_chaperons_. To have the _Nave_, as it were, of the house, for the