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A collection of short stories portraying intimate episodes of social life, often hinging on chance encounters and romantic entanglements. The pieces shift between wry comedy and quiet melancholy, moving through drawing rooms, country houses, and other familiar domestic settings. Recurring themes include the lingering effects of recent conflict, the uneasy adjustments of ordinary lives, and the interplay of memory, longing, and social expectation. Narration favors close psychological observation, economical plotting, and lively colloquial speech that reveals character through small gestures and ironic reversals.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaireded quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaireded.
Transcriber removed duplicate book title just above the first story.
Page 113: “Fairfax Carter they they should” was printed that way, but probably should be “that they”.