Beckoning Hand and Other Stories

I first met Césarine Vivian in the stalls at the Ambiguities Theatre.I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which were then being acted by Marie Leroux''s celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn''t at the time exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn''t engaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalen...