Title Page
The Characters in the Tale
1 The Protagonists
2 Bunchy
3 Sequence to a Cocktail-party
4 Blackmail to Music
5 Unqualified Success
6 Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard
7 Stop Press News
8 Troy and Alleyn
9 Report from Mr Fox
10 Donald
11 Captain Withers at Home
12 Report from a Waiter
13 Dimitri Cuts His Fingers
14 Davidson Digresses
15 Simple Soldier-man
16 Lady Carrados Looks Back
17 The Element of Youth
18 Predicament of a Secretary
19 The General
20 Rose Birnbaum
21 Statement by Lucy Lorrimer
22 Night Club
23 Donald on Wits
24 The Dance Is Wound Up
25 Benefit of Clergy
26 Alleyn Plots a Dénouement
27 Interlude for Love
28 Alleyn Marshals the Protagonists
29 Climax
30 Confessions from Troy
Epilogue
