(Rear and front covers)
PATRICIA BRENT, SPINSTER
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 fiancé. 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.
PATRICIA
BRENT,
SPINSTER
BY
HERBERT JENKINS
HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
3 YORK STREET, LONDON S.W.1
Fifteenth printing completing 153,658 copies
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. | 1 |
II. | 14 |
III. | 27 |
IV. | 43 |
V. | 58 |
VI. | 73 |
VII. | 95 |
VIII. | 106 |
IX. | 118 |
X. | 131 |
XI. | 143 |
XII. | 159 |
XIII. | 180 |
XIV. | 189 |
XV. | 205 |
XVI. | 227 |
XVII. | 246 |
XVIII. | 260 |
XIX. | 274 |
XX. | 286 |
XXI. | 301 |
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1923, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.