Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first time. The book tells both stories in a realistic and engaging way. It gives us, the readers, insight into every aspect of the sisters' lives from managing a household to going out with friends to treating servants and, of course, their love for each other. - Summary by Stav Nisser
Chapters
1 Chapter 01: In the Lime Avenue 20 min 2 Chapter 02: Monsieur Blackie 18 min 3 Chapter 03: King Canute Comes Back 20 min 4 Chapter 04: The Ward Family at Home 23 min 5 Chapter 05: Fairy Magnificent 21 min 6 Chapter 06: Queen Elizabeth's Wraith 21 min 7 Chapter 07: A Humourist and an Idealist 20 min 8 Chapter 08: Mollie's Baby-House 20 min 9 Chapter 09: Rosalind and Celia 20 min 10 Chapter 10: It is the Voice of Sheila 22 min 11 Chapter 11: A Noticeable Man, with Large Grey Eyes 19 min 12 Chapter 12: The Pansy-Room and Cosy Nook 20 min 13 Chapter 13: Concerning Guardian Angels and Ithuriel's Spear 18 min 14 Chapter 14: Thursdays at the Porch House 19 min 15 Chapter 15: Orlando to the Rescue 18 min 16 Chapter 16: Sir Reynard and the Grapes 17 min 17 Chapter 17: Like Ships that Pass in the Night 17 min 18 Chapter 18: Joanna Tangles Her Skein 18 min 19 Chapter 19: A Check for the Black Prince 17 min 20 Chapter 20: Dad's Little Betty 19 min 21 Chapter 21: A Child's Creed 20 min 22 Chapter 22: Between the Acts 22 min 23 Chapter 23: Across the Golf Links 22 min 24 Chapter 24: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed 21 min 25 Chapter 25: A Wet Night and a Difference of Opinion 21 min 26 Chapter 26: A White Vellum Pocket-Book 15 min 27 Chapter 27: An Idealist in Love 17 min 28 Chapter 28: But Yet the Pity of It! 21 min 29 Chapter 29: Barmecide's Feast and a Brown Study 23 min 30 Chapter 30: Suspense 23 min 31 Chapter 31: Down by the River 25 min 32 Chapter 32: I Will Never be Faithless Again 22 min 33 Chapter 33: A Quixotic Resolution 23 min 34 Chapter 34: I Have Wanted My Old Sweetheart 20 min 35 Chapter 35: What Am I To Say 18 min 36 Chapter 36: See the Conquering Hero Comes! 22 min 37 Chapter 37: A Devout Lover 24 min 38 Chapter 38: Mollie's Prince 25 min 39 Chapter 39: Everard Yields the Point 23 min 40 Chapter 40: The Veiled Prophet 21 min 41 Chapter 41: The True Story of Lady Betty 20 min 42 Chapter 42: Wooed, and Married, and A' 30 min
