Contents

Chapter I: The Birth of Columbine

Chapter II: Fairies at the Christening

Chapter III: Dawn Shadows

Chapter IV: The Ancient Mischief

Chapter V: Pretty Apples in Eden

Chapter VI: Shepherd's Calendar

Chapter VII: Ambition Wakes

Chapter VIII: Ambition Looks in the Glass

Chapter IX: Life, Art and Love

Chapter X: Drury Lane and Covent Garden

Chapter XI: The Orient Palace of Varieties

Chapter XII: Growing Old

Chapter XIII: The Ballet of Cupid

Chapter XIV: Rain on the Roof

Chapter XV: Cras Amet

Chapter XVI: Loves Halcyon

Chapter XVII: Columbine Asleep

Chapter XVIII: Sweet and Twenty

Chapter XIX: The Gift of Opals

Chapter XX: Fête Galante

Chapter XXI: Epilogue

Chapter XXII: The Unfinished Statue

Chapter XXIII: Two Letters

Chapter XXIV: Journey's End

Chapter XXV: Monotone

Chapter XXVI: In Scyros

Chapter XXVII: Quartette

Chapter XXVIII: St. Valentine's Eve

Chapter XXIX: Columbine at Dawn

Chapter XXX: Lugete, O Veneres

Chapter XXXI: A Document in Madness

Chapter XXXII: Pageantry of Death

Chapter XXXIII: Loose Ends

Chapter XXXIV: Mr. Z. Trewhella

Chapter XXXV: The Marriage of Columbine

Chapter XXXVI: The Tragic Loading

Chapter XXXVII: Columbine in the Dark

Chapter XXXVIII: The Alien Corn

Chapter XXXIX: Intermezzo

Chapter XL: Harvest Home

Chapter XLI: Columbine Happy

Chapter XLII: Shaded Sunlight

Chapter XLIII: Bow Bells

Chapter XLIV: Picking Up Threads

Chapter XLV: London Pride

Chapter XLVI: May Morning

Chapter XLVII: Nightlight Time

Chapter XLVIII: Carni Vale