Compton Mackenzie

PRELUDE ON A JUNE EVENING, JUST OVER A YEAR BEFORE THE War, seven of the eight girls in dressing-room No. 45 of the Orient Palace of Varieties were preparing themselves as rapidly as possible for their appearance in the ballet divertissement with which the performance opened. Conversation was by...

THE OLD MEN OF THE SEACHAPTER IROMANTIC INCLINATIONSI HAD taken refuge in my club from a cold and gusty evening in early June of the year 19; and I was intending to remain there until it closed, when a man whom I particularly disliked and who was disliked by every one of his fellow-members arrived...