98

XII. THE DISCOVERY 107

XIII. AFTERWARD 115

XIV. MRS. MILLARD DEPARTS 121

XV. GIANT DESPAIR 129

XVI. CHARLOTTE 138

XVII. AN EVENING CALL 146

XVIII. THE ADVENTURES OF A BIRTHDAY CAKE 156

XIX. TEA AND TALK 166

XX. MERRY HEARTS 175

XXI. THE RICH MISS CARPENTER 185

XXII. VALENTINES 192

XXIII. NEIGHBORS 203

XXIV. WAYLAND 215

XXV. THE PRICE OF A BOND 222

XXVI. NORAH'S ARK 229

XXVII. AN ANNIVERSARY 236

XXVIII. WHAT IT MEANT 248

XXIX. A LETTER 253

XXX. CHANGES 262

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
"A small boy . . . stood surveying them with great composure"
_Frontispiece_ 17

"Securely entrenched behind the lace curtain, she levelled her
glass" 61

"She sank into a chair" 109

"James Mandeville's taste was exacting" 194

The
Pleasant Street Partnership

=A Neighborhood Story=

CHAPTER FIRST

A WAVE OF IMPROVEMENT

Pleasant Street was regarded by the Terrace as merely an avenue
of approach to its own exclusive precincts. That Pleasant Street
came to an end at the Terrace seemed to imply that nothing was to
be gained by going farther; and if you desired a quiet, substantial
neighborhood,--none of your showy modern houses on meagre lots, but
spacious dwellings, standing well apart from each other on high
ground,--you found it here.

It could not be denied that the Terrace was rather far down town.
Around it the busy city was closing in, with its blocks of commonplace
houses, its schools and sanitariums, its noisy car lines, until it
seemed but a question of a few years when it would be engulfed in a
wave of mediocrity. Fashion had long ago turned her face in another