The Dangerfield Talisman

Chapter 17: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

At a country-house gathering, an elderly host's valuable family talisman becomes the focal point for guests whose conversations, alliances, and ambitions intersect. The narrative follows social manoeuvres around card tables and drawing rooms, charting romantic tensions, financial anxieties of a young woman, and the quiet rivalries among acquaintances. Through domestic scenes and shifting loyalties, the talisman’s presence prompts questions of reputation, fortune, and obligation, and personal motives emerge as private concerns collide with public amusement and speculation.

Transcriber’s Notes

This transcription follows the text of the edition published by Little, Brown, and Company in February, 1927. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

“semed” has been changed to “seemed” (Chapter VII);
“Westerhanger” has been changed to “Westenhanger” (Chapter X);
“generaations” has been changed to “generations” (Chapter XIV).

All other seeming errors have been allowed to stand. (Note in particular that the name of the jewellery firm has not been regularized, as it is rendered variously as Starbeck, Starbeck’s, and Starbecks, with no clear preference of one use over another.)