Helena Brett's Career

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Desmond Coke. Helena Brett's Career

Helena Brett's Career

Table of Contents

PART I. HOW IT HAPPENED

PART II. HUBERT BRETT'S WIFE

PART III. HELENA BRETT'S CAREER

PART I

HOW IT HAPPENED

HELENA BRETT'S CAREER

CHAPTER I

ADVICE

CHAPTER II

"WHY MEN MARRY"

CHAPTER III

"WHY WOMEN WED"

CHAPTER IV

HYMEN

PART II

HUBERT BRETT'S WIFE

CHAPTER V

ROUTINE

CHAPTER VI

GROWTH

CHAPTER VII

THE CULT OF USELESSNESS

CHAPTER VIII

A SCENE IN THE HOME

CHAPTER IX

CINDERELLA

CHAPTER X

HONOUR

CHAPTER XI

PINK PAPERS AND ST. ANTHONY

CHAPTER XII

DEVILS

CHAPTER XIII

SECRETS

CHAPTER XIV

WAS IT WORTH WHILE?

CHAPTER XV

DISCOVERIES

CHAPTER XVI

A MATTER OF SALES

CHAPTER XVII

THE TEMPTER

PART III

HELENA BRETT'S CAREER

CHAPTER XVIII

ZOË

CHAPTER XIX

BUSINESS

CHAPTER XX

PLEASURE

CHAPTER XXI

EXPOSURE

CHAPTER XXII

THE IRON IN THE SOUL

CHAPTER XXIII

SECRET NUMBER TWO

CHAPTER XXIV

BATTLE ROYAL

CHAPTER XXV

THE BROKEN TRIANGLE

CHAPTER XXVI

TACT

CHAPTER XXVII

THE TWO WAYS

CHAPTER XXVIII

WOMAN PROPOSES

CHAPTER XXIX

HELENA BRETT'S CAREER

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Desmond Coke

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Grown men and women, by some odd irony, are never nearer childhood than when in a temper. Hubert realised abruptly how ridiculous it was. Once more he dropped his voice and dragged the conversation with a wrench back to the point at issue.

"I was only telling you," he said with dignity, "what Boyd said, as you asked to know. He said all this"—once more he waved his hand—"was a mistake, and that I ought to marry."

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