THE DOVES’ NEST AND OTHER STORIES _BOOKS OF STORIES BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD_ BLISS THE GARDEN PARTY THE DOVES’ NEST _NEW YORK: ALFRED · A · KNOPF_ THE DOVES’ NEST AND OTHER STORIES BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD “_Reverence, that angel of the world_.” [Illustration] NEW YORK ALFRED . A . KNOPF MCMXXIII COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. _Published, August, 1923_ _Second Printing, August, 1923_ _Third Printing, October, 1923_ _Fourth Printing, November, 1923_ _Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y. Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York. Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y._ MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO WALTER DE LA MARE CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY NOTE 9 THE DOLL’S HOUSE 25 HONEYMOON 39 A CUP OF TEA 50 TAKING THE VEIL 65 THE FLY 74 THE CANARY 85 _Unfinished Stories_: A MARRIED MAN’S STORY 92 THE DOVES’ NEST 117 SIX YEARS AFTER 147 DAPHNE 156 FATHER AND THE GIRLS 166 ALL SERENE! 177 A BAD IDEA 186 A MAN AND HIS DOG 191 SUCH A SWEET OLD LADY 197 HONESTY 202 SUSANNAH 209 SECOND VIOLIN 214 MR. AND MRS. WILLIAMS 220 WEAK HEART 227 WIDOWED 234 INTRODUCTORY NOTE Katherine Mansfield died at Fontainebleau on January 9th 1923, at the age of thirty-four.