+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber’s note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ A GIRTON GIRL BY ANNIE EDWARDES AUTHOR OF ‘ARCHIE LOVELL,’ ‘OUGHT WE TO VISIT HER?’ ETC. O Women, Women! O our frail frail sex! No wonder tragedies are made from us. Always the same: nothing but loves and cradles’ _The Revolt of the Women_ (ARISTOPHANES) [Illustration: Logo] A NEW EDITION LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1886 _All rights reserved_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. TRIANGULAR FRIENDSHIP 1 II. POKER TALK 11 III. HAS HE A WIFE? 32 IV. A TRINITY BALL 43 V. MARJORIE 58 VI. TWO IN ARCADIA 71 VII. ON THE BRINK OF A FLIRTATION 82 VIII. CROSS-STITCH 89 IX. HALF WAY TOWARDS LITTLE GO 99 X. ‘THEY SAY----’ 108 XI. ‘DODO’S DESPAIR’ 115 XII. YELLOW-BACKED NOVELS 123 XIII. THROUGH SMOKE-COLOURED SPECTACLES 135 XIV. BROUGHT UP BY THE JESUITS 143 XV. A LOVE-LETTER 158 XVI. A RASH RESOLVE 166 XVII. THE FIRST CRUMPLED ROSE-LEAF 172 XVIII. HOW DINAH SAID ‘YES’ 178 XIX. GASTON ARBUTHNOT’S PHILOSOPHY 194 XX. ‘JAMES LEE’S WIFE’ 204 XXI. ‘IS MY VIRGIL PASSABLE?’ 212 XXII. LINDA AS AN ART CRITIC 218 XXIII. A SWAGGER AND A SWORD 227 XXIV. REX BASIRE’S HUMOUR 238 XXV. YOU--AND I! 244 XXVI. CUT AND THRUST 252 XXVII. GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY 261 XXVIII. FOR AULD LANG SYNE 275 XXIX. MISSING 282 XXX. LINDA WARMS TO HER PART 290 XXXI. WIFE AND HUSBAND 300 XXXII. ROSE-WATER SOCIALISM 312 XXXIII. CLOSE TO PORT 320 XXXIV. DEAD ROSE PETALS 325 XXXV. A TRAITRESS 334 XXXVI. THE LAST OF ARCADIA 341 XXXVII. A STONE FOR BREAD 347 XXXVIII. TEMPTATION 362 XXXIX. THAT LITTLE DIVINITY 379 XL. AT THE BUNGALOW 389 XLI. ONE WORD 399 XLII. EMANCIPATION 407