Miss Dolly Foster, soon to be Lady Mickleham, trades epigrams and mild flirtation with the narrator, Mr. Carter, in Rotten Row, drawing rooms and smoking rooms. In short comic dialogues she makes and unmakes matches, teases her long-suffering husband and treats the rules of London society as a game she always intends to win.
Published the same year as The Prisoner of Zenda, these feather-light sketches are among the wittiest of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.