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Title: Patricia Brent, Spinster

Author: Herbert Jenkins

Release Date: August 5, 2010 [EBook #33353]

Language: English

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PATRICIA BRENT, SPINSTER

BY

HERBERT JENKINS

HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED

3 YORK STREET, LONDON S.W.1

1918

A
HERBERT
JENKINS'
BOOK

_Fifteenth printing completing 153,658 copies_

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PURNELL AND SONS, PAULTON (SOMERSET) AND LONDON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. PATRICIA'S INDISCRETION
II. THE BONSOR-TRIGGS' MENAGE
III. THE ADVENTURE AT THE QUADRANT GRILL-ROOM
IV. THE MADNESS OF LORD PETER BOWEN
V. PATRICIA'S REVENGE
VI. THE INTERVENTION OF AUNT ADELAIDE
VII. LORD PETER PROMISES A SOLUTION
VIII. LORD PETER'S S.O.S.
IX. LADY TANAGRA TAKES A HAND
X. MISS BRENT'S STRATEGY
XI. THE DEFECTION OF MR. TRIGGS
XII. A BOMBSHELL
XIII. A TACTICAL BLUNDER
XIV. GALVIN HOUSE MEETS A LORD
XV. MR. TRIGGS TAKES TEA IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
XVI. PATRICIA'S INCONSTANCY
XVII. LADY PEGGY MAKES A FRIEND
XVIII. THE AIR RAID
XIX. GALVIN HOUSE AFTER THE RAID
XX. A RACE WITH SPINSTERHOOD
XXI. THE GREATEST INDISCRETION

WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT

Patricia Brent is a "paying guest" at the Galvin House Residential
Hotel. One day she overhears two of her fellow "guests" pitying her
because she "never has a nice young man to take her out."

In a thoughtless moment of anger she announced that on the following
night she is dining at the Quadrant with her fiance. When in due
course she enters the grill-room, she finds some of Galvin Houseites
there to watch her. Rendered reckless by the thought of the
humiliation of being found out, she goes up to a young staff-officer,
and asks him to help her by "playing up."

This is how she meets Lt.-Col. Lord Peter Bowen, D.S.O. The story is a
comedy concerned with the complications that ensue from Patricia's
thoughtless act.