E-text prepared by David Edwards, Ritu Aggarwal, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/lovelucy00hewliala LOVE AND LUCY by MAURICE HEWLETT Author of "The Forest Lovers," "The Life and Death of Richard Yea and Nay," etc. New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1916 Copyright, 1916 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. _BEATI POSSIDENTES_ CONTENTS CHAPTER I ONSLOW SQUARE 1 II A DINNER PARTY 16 III IN THE DRAWING-ROOM 31 IV AFTER-TALK 41 V EROS STEPS IN 53 VI A LEAP OUTWARDS 74 VII PATIENCE AND PSYCHE 84 VIII AGAIN 102 IX SUNDRY ROMANTIC EPISODES 112 X AT A WORLD'S EDGE 121 XI ANTEROS 134 XII MARTLEY THICKET (1) 148 XIII MARTLEY THICKET (2) 162 XIV THE GREAT SCHEME 175 XV JAMES 188 XVI _Amari Aliquid_ 196 XVII THE SHIVERING FIT 209 XVIII THE HARDANGER 227 XIX THE MOON-SPELL 235 XX FAIR WARNING 247 XXI THE DEPARTURE 256 XXII CATASTROPHE 268 XXIII JAMES AND JIMMY 280 XXIV URQUHART'S APOLOGY 292 EPILOGUE: _Quid Plura_? 306 LOVE AND LUCY CHAPTER I ONSLOW SQUARE