Preface

HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE

by

Edward P. Roe

CONTENTS

Chapter

I

Left Alone

II

A Very Interested Friend

III

Mrs. Mumpson Negotiates and Yields

IV

Domestic Bliss

V

Mrs. Mumpson Takes up Her Burdens

VI

A Marriage?

VII

From Home to the Street

VIII

Holcroft's View of Matrimony

IX

Mrs. Mumpson Accepts Her Mission

X

A Night of Terror

XI

Baffled

XII

Jane

XIII

Not Wife, But Waif

XIV

A Pitched Battle

XV

"What is to Become of Me?"

XVI

Mrs. Mumpson's Vicissitudes

XVII

A Momentous Decision

XVIII

Holcroft Gives His Hand

XIX

A Business Marriage

XX

Uncle Jonathan's Impression of the Bride

XXI

At Home

XXII

Getting Acquainted

XXIII

Between the Past and Future

XXIV

Given Her Own Way

XXV

A Charivari

XXVI

"You Don't Know"

XXVII

Farm and Farmer Bewitched

XXVIII

Another Waif

XXIX

Husband and Wife in Trouble

XXX

Holcroft's Best Hope

XXXI

"Never!"

XXXII

Jane Plays Mouse to the Lion

XXXIII

"Shrink From YOU?"