How Life was Gray and Everything was Horrid; how Carlisle went to Little Africa with Hen; how the Man spoke to her again, just the same, and what happened then; further, reporting a Confidential Talk with a Best Girl-Friend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 XIV In which Cally tells a Certain Person that she isn't Happy--Very 180 XV In which she goes to New York and is very Happy indeed . . . . . 190 XVI Of Happiness continuing, and what all the World loves; revealing, however, that not Every Girl can do what the French People once did 201 XVII Cally crosses the Great Gulf; and it isn't quite Clear how she will ever cross back again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 XVIII Night-Thoughts on the Hardness of Religious Fellows, compelling you to be Hard, too; Happier Things again, such as Hugo, Europe, Trousseaux, etc.; concluding with a Letter from Texas and a Little Vulgarian in a Red Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 XIX How it is One Thing to run away from yourself, and another to escape; how Cally orders the Best Cocktails, and gazes at her Mother asleep; also of Jefferson 4127, and why Mamma left the Table in a hurry at the Café des Ambassadeurs . . . . . . . . . . 249 XX In which Jack Dalhousie wears a New Dignity, and the Lame Stranger comes to the House of Heth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 XXI That Day at the Beach, as we sit and look back at it; how Hugo journeys to shield his Love from Harm, and Small Beginnings can end with Uproars and a Proverb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 XXII One Summer in the Old Hotel; of the World's wagging on, Kern Garland, and Prince Serge Suits; of how Kern leaves the Works for Good and has a Dream about Mr. V.V.'s Beautiful Lady; of how Mr. V.V. came to sit in the Still Watches and think again of John the Baptist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 XXIII One Summer in Europe, which she never speaks of now; Home again, with what a Difference; Novel Questionings, as to what is a Friend, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 XXIV How the Best People came to the Old Hotel again; how Cally is Ornamental, maybe, but hardly a Useful Person; how she encounters Three Surprises from Three Various Men, all disagreeable but the Last. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 XXV In which the Name of Heth is lifted beyond the Reach of Hateful Malice, and Mamma wishes that she had the Ten Thousand back again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 XXVI Concerning Women who won't remember their Place, and a Speech to Two Hundred of them, by Mr. V.V., no less; also revealing why Hen Cooney never found V.V. in the Crowd around the Platform . . 363 XXVII Of one of the Triumphs of Cally's Life, and the Tête-à-tête following, which vaguely depresses her; of the Little Work-Girl who brought the Note that Sunday, oddly remet at Gentlemen's Furnishings . . 378 XXVIII