[Illustration: Book Cover] DODO WONDERS-- * * * * * E. F. BENSON * * * * * BY E. F. BENSON * * * * * DODO WONDERS-- "QUEEN LUCIA" ROBIN LINNET ACROSS THE STREAM UP AND DOWN AN AUTUMN SOWING THE TORTOISE DAVID BLAIZE DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR MICHAEL THE OAKLEYITES ARUNDEL OUR FAMILY AFFAIRS * * * * * NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY * * * * * * * * * * DODO WONDERS-- * * * * * BY E. F. BENSON AUTHOR OF "QUEEN LUCIA," "DODO," "DAVID BLAIZE," "ACROSS THE STREAM," ETC. NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921, BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY (HARPER'S BAZAAR) CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I DODO DE SENECTUTE 9 II HIGHNESS 30 III CROSS-CURRENTS 52 IV JUMBO 77 V A MAN'S HAND 98 VI A WATERLOO BALL 119 VII DODO'S APPRENTICESHIP 143 VIII EDITH DECLARES WAR 167 IX MID-STREAM 189 X THE SILVER BOW 208 XI DODO'S NIGHT OUT 231 XII THE REVIVAL 251 CHAPTER I DODO DE SENECTUTE Dodo was so much interested in what she had herself been saying, that having just lit one cigarette, she lit another at it, and now contemplated the two with a dazed expression. She was talking to Edith Arbuthnot, who had just returned from a musical tour in Germany, where she had conducted a dozen concerts consisting entirely of her own music with flaring success. She had been urged by her agent to give half a dozen more, the glory of which, he guaranteed, would completely eclipse that of the first series, but instead she had come back to England. She did not quite know why she had done so: her husband Bertie had sent the most cordial message to say that he and their daughter Madge were getting on quite excellently without her--indeed that seemed rather unduly stressed--but ... here she was. The statement of this, to be enlarged on no doubt later, had violently switched the talk on to a discussion on free will.