It Never Can Happen Again Vol II Author:William De Morgan It Never Can Happen Again - 1909 - CONTENTS OF VOL. I1 CHaPTER XXVIII PAGE THE BRITISH HOUSEKEEPER. HOW MRS. ELDRIDGE CAME INSTEAD OF TO-MORROW. HER ADVICE. TELEGRAPH GIRLS. A FRENCH WOMANS IDEAS. HOW THE CAT QOT NO SLEEP. HOW MARIANNE POSTED A CIVIL SORT OF LETTER IN THE PILLAR-BOX, AND WAS SORRY . . . . 1 CHAPTER XXIX HOW CEALLIS MET LIZARANN... more » IN SOCIETY. OF A LECTURE THE RECTOR READ CHALLIS, AND ITS EBBECT ON HIS MAGE OF MARIANNE. HOW HE HADNT BEEN TO ASHCROBT. IT WAS AN UNSATISFACTORY LETTER THAT . . . 19 CHAPTER XXX HOW CHALLIS HAD A NEW NEIGHBOUR AT DINNER AND METAPHYSICS AFTER. HOW HE WAS GUILTY OF EAVESDROPPING, AND MET NISS ARKROYD ABTER IN A LITTLE GARDEN CALLED TOPHET. A FOOLS PASSION. WHAT ABOUT BOB . . 36 CHAPTER XXXI CONCERNING A ROSEBUD, AXD MARIANNES TORTOISESHELL KNIFE. CHALLISS PRESENCE OF MIND. THE FOOL ON FIRE. DEBINITION WANTED OF DEFINITION. CHALLISS SUDDEN OALL BACK TO TOWN. HOW SLBYL HAD SEEN IT ALL . . . 48 CHAPTER XXXII HOW LIZdRANN AND JOAN PLAYED TRUANT. OF A RIDE IH A MOTOR, AND ITS BAD EBFECTS. HOW LIZARANN CONVALESCED, AND JUDITH WALKED HOBIE FROM CHURCH WITH THE RECTOR. HOW MARIANNE HAD BOLTED WITH THE TWO CHILDREN . 69 CHAPTER XXXIII CIIALLTSS INSIPID RETURN HOMB. WHAT HAD IT ALL BEEN, THIS DREAM OLD LINKS WITH BYGONES. HOW CONFESS, AND TO WHAT OF A FIRE GOD GAVE FOR OTHER ENDS 2 . . 84 V CONTENTS OP VOL. II CHAPTER XXXIV PAGE A BAD RAILWAY ACCIDENT. AND, AFTER ALL, BIAEIANNE WAS AT HOME. CHALLISS REPORT OF ROYD. BUT NO -MARIANNE WOULDNT HAVE JUDITH SLURRED OVER . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXSV OF MUTUAL MISTRUST. HANDSOME JUDITR BUT BIARIAHNE HAD NO CVISEE TO PRY INTO HER AFFAIRS. HOW MATTERS WERE COMFORTABLER. PLEASE BURN WT POSTSCRIPT CHALLISS EXPLANATION. HOW IT FAILED, AND HE WENT FOR A W A . 10 5 CHAPTER XXXVI HOW CHALLIS AND HIS WIFE PARTED. A DINNER AT THE CLUB, AND HIS RETURN FROM IT. WHAT HAS BECOME OF YOUR MISTRESS A LETTER FROM MARIANNBI CRAIK. DABIN CHARLOTTE ELDRIDGE . . . 119 CHAPTER XXXVII BOW CHALLIS COULDNT BELIEVE M A R I A W E A S IN EARNEST. HOW HE SOUGHT HER AND FAILED. THE EYES OF HOLY WRIT. THE DISGRACEFlTL TRUTB. DEAR MISS ARKROTD WHY EIGHT AGAINST INFLICTED LIBERTY GLENVAIRLOCH TO LET . . 129 CHAPTER XXXVIII THE EMPTY IIERMITAGE. A COMPROBIISE ABOUT BOB. HOW MRS. STEPTOE HAD NOTHING TO CONCEAL. HOW CINTILLA CAUGHT MR. CHALLIS. CALYPSOS RUQ ISLAND. GOOD-BYE PRO MISE NOT TO COME TO BIARRITZ THE SKEIN WOUND . . 147 CHAPTER XXXIX OF THE NEWS MR. ELPHINSTONE TOLD MRS. PROVEROE. EOIV CHALLIS HAD FOLLOWED JUDITH TO MENTONE. YOUNQ MRS. CRAIK AND HER DEAD DICKY-BIRD. HOW CHALLIS BEOAhfE A KNIGHT . . . . . . . . . 166 CHAPTER XL iiom nrss FOSSETT WENT TO ROYD. ON SUSPEXSIOX OF OPINION. ANXIETY ABOUT LIZARANN. A VISIT TO 1 , AND A RETROSPECT. HOW MISS FOSSETT MADE A NICE XESS OF IT . 184 CONTENTS OF VOL. vii CHAPTER XL1 PAGE HOW JIM FOUND 4 BXISSION IN LIFE, AND LIZARANN MOVED TO MRS. FORKS S COTTAGE. OF A FINE AUTUMN, AND HOW ALL WAS RIGHT TILL SOMETHING WENT WRONG. OF A SEASIDE SCHEME, AND ITS EFFECTS ON JIM . . 196 CWTER XL11 HOW A NAUGHTY LITTLE GIRL CAME OUT IN THE COLD AND TALKED TO HER DADDY. AND HOW WINTER MADE HER WORSE. OF A TALK BETWEEN TI-IE RECTOR AND MISS FOSSETT, AND A SUGGESTION SHE MADE TO HIM. . 209 CHAPTER CHAPTER XLIV THE RECTORS OPINION, AND WHY IT CARRIED NO WEIGHT. OF THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER, AND WHY CHALLIS DOUBTED IT. YET THE RECTOR TOLERATED HIS IMPIETY . . . 231 CHAPTER XLV HOW CnALLIS AND JUDITH MET AGAIN AT TROUT BEND, AND TALKED IT OVER. HOW SEE CRIED OFF, FEELING SECURE. AND OF THE ARRARGEMENT THEY MADE. OF A CENTENARIAN WHO GOT TZALF-A-SOVEREIGN . . ...« less