Of these stories only the one called _At Karori_ and subsequently entitled _The Doll’s House_ was finished, three days later, on October 30. Of some of the remaining stories there are considerable fragments, of three of them I have so far discovered no trace at all. All the fragments I have found which indubitably belong to any of these stories I have included in this volume. I have also included other fragments which seemed to possess a separate existence, but I have reserved most of the shorter pieces for publication with her Journal. Between October 1921, when the original plan of this volume was sketched, and the end of January 1922, she finished other stories which she had not foreseen. These were _A Cup of Tea_, _Honeymoon_, _Taking the Veil_, and the long, unfinished, yet somehow complete piece, _A Married Man’s Story_. In January she also began _The Doves’ Nest_, a story which was particularly important to her, and with the writing of which—at least at the beginning—she was satisfied. She wrote in her Journal on New Year’s Day, 1922: Wrote _The Doves’ Nest_ this afternoon. I was in no mood to write; it seemed impossible. Yet, when I had finished three pages, they ‘were all right!’ This is a proof (never to be too often proved) that when one has thought out a story nothing remains but the _labour_. She worked on and off at _The Doves’ Nest_ during the following summer also. Unfortunately I can find no trace of her own manuscript. There is a fair, clean copy, typewritten by herself, of the portion printed in this book, but nothing more. In February 1922 began three months of an exacting medical treatment in Paris, during which work became more and more a physical impossibility. Nevertheless, at the beginning of this time, on February 20th, she wrote _The Fly_. On her return to Switzerland in June she tried to resume work on _The Doves’ Nest_ and she wrote the scenario of a play; but again physical weakness made work in the mountains impossible. To ease the strain on her heart she descended into the valley in June. At Sierre she wrote more of _The Doves’ Nest_, much more, alas, than remains; she also began the unfinished piece called _Father and the Girls_ and finished the short story called _The Canary_. These were the last of the stories written by her which can be exactly dated. There is reason, however, to believe that the passage of the story called _Six Years After_ which ends with the words: “Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been—Nothing!” was actually the last piece written by her. It seems to belong to the autumn of 1922, when she had, for a time, practically abandoned writing.