_Your Affectionate Godmother_ By ELINOR GLYN Your Affectionate Godmother The Point of View Guinevere’s Lover Halcyone The Reason Why His Hour D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON [Illustration: “_Never ask your husband questions_” [PAGE 146]] _Your Affectionate Godmother_ _By_ _Elinor Glyn_ _Author of “The Point of View,” “The Reason Why,” etc._ [Illustration] _Illustrated by Grace Hart_ _D. Appleton and Company_ _New York_ _1914_ COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1912, 1913, by Harper’s Bazaar, Inc. Published in England as “Letters to Caroline” _List of Illustrations_ _Page_ “_Never ask your husband questions_” _Frontispiece_ “_I think, firstly, she ought to understand the colossal importance of beauty_” 39 “_By all means play your golf and tennis, but try and make your partner feel that these things are a means to securing the end he desires_” 47 “_Numbers of young women do the seeking and the hunting_” 51 “_Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls_” 77 “‘_It is better to marry the life you like, because after a while the man does not matter_’” 81 “_Think what it would be to be with him always_” 85 “_If you want to keep him in the blissful state, attend to pleasing his eye and ear when alone with him_” 103 “_Above all, do not be dramatic_” 129 “_A great position will count more than the romantic part of love_” 134 “_I wonder if you smoke, dear girl?_” 161 “_The Tango--dance it, if your friends dance it, and try to do it with the most perfect grace_” 207 I _Your Affectionate Godmother_ NOVEMBER, 1912. Now that you are soon about to return from Paris, Caroline--polished, let us hope, in education--it may be interesting for us to have some little talks together upon the meaning of things and the aspects which life is likely to present to you.