IV. ABOUT SHOPPING AND MEN 83

V. ABOUT WEST POINT AND PROPOSALS 101

VI. ABOUT THE PARK AND LOVE STORIES 118

VII. ABOUT SKY-SCRAPERS AND BEAUTIFUL LADIES 133

VIII. ABOUT NEWPORT AND GORGEOUSNESS 141

IX. ABOUT BATHING, A DRESS, AND AN EARL 156

X. ABOUT A VIOLET TEA AND A MILLIONAIRE 170

XI. ABOUT A GREAT AFFAIR 180

XII. ABOUT A WEDDING AND A DISASTER 200

XIII. ABOUT RUNNING AWAY 211

XIV. ABOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED AND CHICAGO 223

XV. ABOUT SEEING CHICAGO 227

XVI. ABOUT THE VALLEY FARM 238

XVII. ABOUT COWS AND NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS 253

XVIII. ABOUT SOME COUNTRY FOLK, AND WALKER'S EMPORIUM 272

XIX. ABOUT GETTING ENGAGED 289

XX. ABOUT JIM AND THE DUKE 297

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"I found myself chatting away with those cadets as if I had
grown up with them" _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

"He turned around quickly, glanced up and caught my eyes,
as I was looking down, quite distressed" 34

"When I turned to speak to him he was gone ... and I
was immediately surrounded by other men asking me for
dances" 196

"I swept past him with my nose in the air, trying to
look like mother" 206

"Mr. Trowbridge took me to the beehives to get some
honey and show me what a queen bee is like" 258

"Jim smiled and kept his seat without the least apparent
effort" 302

LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER

I

ABOUT BEING BANISHED

I don't know yet whether I'm pleased or not, but I do know that I'm
excited--more excited than I've ever been in my life, except perhaps
when Miss Mackinstry, my last gove