| Mr. Petre wondering who or what he may have been |
Frontispiece |
| PAGE |
| “... As though he were a Unicorn” |
11 |
| “... And the two ex-Lord-Chancellors agreed” |
27 |
| Mrs. Cyril leaping to the telephone |
37 |
| His Grace the Proprietor of the “Messenger”
conferring the Order of the Boot on Mr. Batterby,
of Golder’s Green in the County of Middlesex |
52 |
| Sir Jeremiah Walton, God’s servant |
57 |
| Minatory but Patient Admonishment of the Ignoble
Algernon by Breeches of Bolter’s Club,
St. James’ (S.W.1) |
62 |
| “... Spectacles adorning a face like the full
moon” |
69 |
| “His forehead witnessed to a lifetime of profound
thought, his white beard to careful
grooming” |
72 |
| The Partners |
89 |
| “Exactly. I quite understand” |
99 |
| Dada Beeston (Dorothea Madua, second and
younger daughter of Henry, 10th Baron Beeston,
of Beeston Abbey, Beeston, Rutlandshire;
and of Desirée Waldschwein, his wife) |
131 |
| “One had chosen Public Service, the other—Affairs” |
138 |
| “He used to think in three figures; he was now
thinking in five” |
144 |
| Young Mr. Cassleton, growing acquainted with
the World of Affairs |
150 |
| The Public discovering no small appetite for the
Debentures at 8% |
173 |
| “He had decided” |
189 |
| The Great Specialist wrote:—“Special circumstances:
A Bastard” |
199 |
| The second and more jovial Great Specialist, Sir
William Bland |
208 |
| Joyous recognition of Buffy Thomas |
218 |
| John Kosciusko protesting against the interference
of Peers in Judicial Procedure |
267 |
| Ermyntrude, First (and Last) Viscountess
Boole: Lord Chancellor of England |
272 |
