CONTENTS FORMING THE NIGHT CLUB THE COMING OF SALLIE THE PRIME MINISTER DECIDES TO ADVERTISE THE BOY THE BARABBAS CLUB I FAIL THE NIGHT CLUB A SURPRISE BEHIND THE VEIL THE MAKING OF A MAN OF GENIUS MRS. BILTOX-JONES'S EXPERIMENT THE NIGHT CLUB VISITS BINDLE THE GENERAL BECOMES A MEMBER THE MATER THE ROMANCE OF A HORSEWHIPPING GINGER VISITS THE NIGHT CLUB A DRAMATIC ENGAGEMENT THE MOGGRIDGES' ZEPPELIN NIGHT SALLIE AT THE WHEEL

The Rain-Girl Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp through the countryside. On the very first day he meets a mysterious girl with enchanting grey eyes, sitting on a gate, in the rain. They inadvertently get separated before he finds out her name, but he is determined to find her again. Romantic comedy from 1919, by the author of "Patricia Brent, spinster." - Summary by Anna Simon

Patricia, Brent Spinster Patricia Brent is a "paying guest" at the Galvin House Residential Hotel. One day she overhears two of her fellow "guests" pitying her because she "never has a nice young man to take her out." In a thoughtless moment of anger she announced that on the following night she is dining at the Quadrant with her fiance. When in due course she enters the grill-room, she finds some of Galvin Houseites there to watch her. Rendered reckless by the thought of the humiliation of being found out, she goes up to a young staff-officer, and asks him to help her by "playing up." This...