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Chapter I – 4 A.M
Chapter II – ARRIVALS
Chapter III – THE MEAT-BUYER
Chapter IV – THE DRIVE
Chapter V – GRACIE AT SMITHFIELD
Chapter VI – BIRTH OF DAY
Chapter VII – THE HOTEL WAKING UP
Chapter VIII – THE NEW LIFE
Chapter IX – CONFERENCE
Chapter X – LAUNDRY
Chapter XI – SHADES
Chapter XII – DAUGHTER AND FATHER
Chapter XIII – GREEN PARROT
Chapter XIV – VOLIVIA
Chapter XV – CUISINE
Chapter XVI – ESCAPE
Chapter XVII – 2 A.M. TO 3 A.M
Chapter XVIII – THE VACANT SITUATION
Chapter XIX – POWDER AND ROUGE
Chapter XX – THE BOARD
Chapter XXI – SHAREHOLDERS
Chapter XXII – THE RESOLUTION
Chapter XXIII – SUSAN
Chapter XXIV – DOGS
Chapter XXV – EARLY MORN
Chapter XXVI – NERVE-STORM
Chapter XXVII – CRIME
Chapter XXVIII – COUSIN
Chapter XXIX – VIOLET’S ARRIVAL
Chapter XXX – OFFICIAL INTERVIEW
Chapter XXXI – BOWELS OF THE HOTEL
Chapter XXXII – INITIATION
Chapter XXXI – A FRIEND
Chapter XXXIV – VIOLET AND MAC
Chapter XXXV – RETURN TO EIGHTH
Chapter XXXVI – MESS LUNCH
Chapter XXXVII – THE NEW MILLIONAIRE
Chapter XXXVIII – FALSE REPRIEVE
Chapter XXXIX – HOUSEKEEPERS
Chapter XL – NEGOTIATION
Chapter XLI – AN ATTACK
Chapter XLII – CERIA AND SIR HENRY
Chapter XLIII – SABBATH
Chapter XLIV – THE VAMP
Chapter XLV – THE PANJANDRUM’S RETURN
Chapter XLVI – ANOTHER CONFERENCE
Chapter XLVII – NEW YEAR’S EVE
Chapter XLVIII – TESSA
Chapter XLIX – NEW YEAR’S MORNING
Chapter L – IN THE RAIN
Chapter LI – AFTER THE STORM
Chapter LII – TELEPHONE
Chapter LIII – ELECTRONS
Chapter LIV – CALIGULA
Chapter LV – ON THE BOULEVARD
Chapter LVI – DECLARATION
Chapter LVII – THE GLOVE
Chapter LVIII – THE LOVELY MILKMAID
Chapter LIX – TEMPER
Chapter LX – THE CASH-GIRL
Chapter LXI – THE HELPMEET
Chapter LXII – MELODRAMA
Chapter LXIII – VIOLET AND CERIA
Chapter LXIV – HIS LETTER
Chapter LXV – CERIA’S OFFICE
Chapter LXVI – HER LETTER
Chapter LXVII – WORKS
Chapter LXVIII – THE SCENE
Chapter LXIX – EASY-CHAIR
Chapter LXX – THE DUNCANNON AFFAIR
Chapter LXXI – NIGHT-WORK
Chapter LXXII – QUEEN ANNE
Chapter LXXIII – THE SUPPER
Evelyn came down by the lift into the great front-hall. One of the clocks there showed seven minutes to four; the other showed six minutes to four. He thought: “I should have had time to shave. This punctuality business is getting to be a mania with me.” He smiled sympathetically, forgivingly, at his own weakness, which the smile transformed into a strength. He had bathed; he had drunk tea; he was correctly dressed, in the informal style which was his—lounge-suit, soft collar, soft hat, light walking-stick, no gloves; but he had not shaved. No matter. There are dark men who must shave every twelve hours; their chins are blue. Evelyn was neither dark nor fair; he might let thirty hours pass without a shave, and nobody but an inquisitive observer would notice the negligence.
The great front-hall was well lighted; but the lamps were islands in the vast dusky spaces; at 2 a.m. the chandeliers—sixteen lamps apiece—which hung in the squares of the panelled ceiling ceased to shower down their spendthrift electricity on the rugs and the concrete floor impressively patterned in huge lozenges of black and white. Behind the long counters to the right of the double revolving doors at the main entrance shone the two illuminated signs, “Reception” and “Enquiries,” always at the same strength day and night. The foyer down the steps, back beyond the hall, had one light. The restaurant down the steps beyond the foyer had one light. The reading-room, cut out of the hall by glass partitions, had no light. The grill-room, which gave on a broad corridor opposite the counters, had several lights; in theory it opened for breakfasts at 6 a.m., but in fact it was never closed, nor its kitchen closed.
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“I won’t be in the way. I’d be as small as a mouse.”
They read your thoughts.
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