The Coming of Bill

by P. G. Wodehouse

1920


Contents

BOOK I
CHAPTER I. A Pawn of Fate
CHAPTER II. Ruth States Her Intentions
CHAPTER III. The Mates Meet
CHAPTER IV. Troubled Waters
CHAPTER V. Wherein Opposites Agree
CHAPTER VI. Breaking the News
CHAPTER VII. Sufficient Unto Themselves
CHAPTER VIII. Suspense
CHAPTER IX. The White Hope is Turned Down
CHAPTER X. An Interlude of Peace
CHAPTER XI. Stung to Action
CHAPTER XII. A Climax

BOOK II
CHAPTER I. Empty-handed
CHAPTER II. An Unknown Path
CHAPTER III. The Misadventure of Steve
CHAPTER IV. The Widening Gap
CHAPTER V. The Real Thing
CHAPTER VI. The Outcasts
CHAPTER VII. Cutting the Tangled Knot
CHAPTER VIII. Steve to the Rescue
CHAPTER IX. At One in the Morning
CHAPTER X. Accepting the Gifts of the Gods
CHAPTER XI. Mr. Penway on the Grill
CHAPTER XII. Dolls with Souls
CHAPTER XIII. Pastures New
CHAPTER XIV. The Sixty-First Street Cyclone
CHAPTER XV. Mrs. Porter’s Waterloo
CHAPTER XVI. The White-Hope Link

BOOK ONE

Chapter I.
A Pawn of Fate

Mrs. Lora Delane Porter dismissed the hireling who had brought her automobilearound from the garage and seated herself at the wheel. It was her habit torefresh her mind and improve her health by a daily drive between the hours oftwo and four in the afternoon.

The world knows little of its greatest women, and it is possible that Mrs.Porter’s name is not familiar to you. If this is the case, I am pained,but not surprised. It happens only too often that the uplifter of the publicmind is baulked by a disinclination on the part of the public mind to meet himor her half-way. The uplifter does his share. He produces the uplifting book.But the public, instead of standing still to be uplifte

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