ABSTRACT
Priscilla made a very wry face when she saw the parcel containing her novel. She had expected it, after receiving a note from Messrs. Snoad and Follows saying that its publication would spoil the reputation she had made by ‘A Parish Romance.’ They advised her to set to work on a story more on the lines of her first. She had laughed bitterly as she read the note. She had accomplished less 39even than Dunstane, with whom she had begun to feel impatient. His work at least was not stamped failure.
