The prologue finds five anxious Englishmen around a campfire in an African forest, listening to the darkness. The novel proper moves to London, where well-meaning interference in other people’s affairs goes badly wrong, a man is told he has no ideas of his own, and the elegant Mrs. Willoughby drives her phaeton down Bond Street.
An early novel by the author of The Four Feathers, mixing adventure and society drama. Download the free EPUB.