BY STEPHEN McKENNA _NOVELS_: TO-MORROW AND TO-MORROW VINDICATION THE COMMANDMENT OF MOSES SOLILOQUY THE CONFESSIONS OF A WELL-MEANING WOMAN THE SENSATIONALISTS: I _Lady Lilith_ II _The Education of Eric Lane_ III _The Secret Victory_ SONIA MARRIED MIDAS AND SON NINETY-SIX HOURS’ LEAVE SONIA THE SIXTH SENSE SHEILA INTERVENES THE RELUCTANT LOVER * * * * * BY INTERVENTION OF PROVIDENCE WHILE I REMEMBER TEX: A CHAPTER IN THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS TO-MORROW AND TO-MORROW . . . _A NOVEL_ BY STEPHEN McKENNA BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1924 _Copyright, 1924_, BY STEPHEN MCKENNA. _All rights reserved_ Published, October, 1924 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO MARION Three years ago, _The Secret Victory_ brought to an end the trilogy which I called _The Sensationalists_. This book and the antecedent volumes—_Lady Lilith_ and _The Education of Eric Lane_—described the fortunes of certain men and women who constituted part of the larger groups which I had approached in _Sonia, Midas and Son_ and _Sonia Married_. By the accident of birth, fortune or talent, “these our actors” were made to fill a position—before, during and after the war—which attracted to them more attention than was warranted by their historical importance. My defence—if I must defend myself—is that the butterfly in every age has claimed more notice than the bee. The social scene, to change my metaphor, presented by so single-minded a writer as Mr. Greville has to find room for the D’Orsays, the Egremonts, the Sidney Smiths and the Madame de Lievens, who throng his stage in act after act, as well as for the Peels, Wellingtons and Melbournes. Is a defence still necessary for continuing the life of a character from one novel to another? Mr. Disraeli, in his splendid progress through a part of Mr. Greville’s period, refused to cut the thread of an imaginary existence at the moment when his last page was bound into its cover; and the novel-sequence which aims to describe a social and political scene must, no less than succeeding volumes of memoirs, call back to the stage the same leaders and the same camp-followers. If this present series have any artistic or historical value, I should like it to be found in the completed picture.