| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Death brings Cool Night after Life’s Sultry Day! | 1 |
| II. | Dust and an Endless Darkness | 17 |
| III. | Before the Coroner | 31 |
| IV. | Christmas Eve | 49 |
| V. | Gloomy Days | 65 |
| VI. | Bella’s Revenge | 82 |
| VII. | Mine own Familiar Friend | 96 |
| VIII. | Cyril renounces Love and Fortune | 109 |
| IX. | ‘Those are the Killing Griefs which dare not Speak’ | 128 |
| X. | ‘Alas! I have nor Hope nor Health’ | 141 |
| XI. | ‘Why was my Cressid then so hard to Win?’ | 159 |
| XII. | Something must be Done | 176 |
| XIII. | ‘A Smile of thine shall make my Bliss’ | 189 |
| XIV. | ‘Oh, Break, my Heart!—Poor Bankrupt, Break at once’ | 208 |
| XV. | But am I not the Nobler through thy Love? | 216 |
| XVI. | I only Learned to Doubt at Last | 230 |
| XVII. | The only Son of his Mother | 248 |
| XVIII. | ‘Sick, sick to the Heart of Life am I’ | 274 |
| XIX. | Mr. Piper falls in Love | 291 |
| XX. | Mr. Piper makes an Offer | 300 |
| XXI. | Cyril’s Nurses | 314 |