IN LONDON, THE STORY OF ADAM AND MARRIAGE - 1922 -- CONTENTS CHAPTER I. ADAMA RRIVES IN LONDON . 11. ADAMF INDAS NCHORAG . E . .. 111. ADAMW RITES T O MR. MACARTH . Y IV. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . V. THEP ORTA O L F FAME .. VI. MORE ADO ABOUT LESS -. VII. MR. MACARTHCYO MES TO TOWN . VIII. WITH MR. MACARTH I Y N LONDO . N .. IX. OF A POST CARD FROM G. B. S. . X. ADAM S TOOP TO S CONQUER . . XI. ADAM GOES ON TOUR . .. . XII. SUCCESS . . . .. . . XIIT. JANEN IGHTINGALE . . XIV. DUBLIN DOES IT . . XV. MR. SACKVILLBEE HAVES A S A GENTLE MAN . . .. XVI. LADYD ERRYDOW A N T HOME . . .. XVII. How THE MARCHESEAS CAPE . D XVIII. MOREC OMPAN F Y O R SIR DAVID . XIX. ADAM P ROSPER . S XX. IN THE SHADOW OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL . -. I. XXI. THE P ROBLE O M F MARRIAGE . . .. XXII. THE P ROBLE R M EM AINSU NSOLVED . XXIII. THE SELF-HELPM INISTRY . XXIV. To FIGHT OR NOT TO FIGHT . vii PAGE 3 12 19 26 34 42 50 60 68 76 87 95 104 113 viii CONTENTS CflAPTM PAGE XXV. MAJORM ACFADDESMN ITH .. . L.. 203 XXVI. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE . . . I. . 211 XXVII. IN THE TEMPLE . . . . 2 2 1 XXVIII. ADAM I S OFFENDE . D . . . . 231 XXIX. AT THE GARAGE . ... .. .. . . 238 XXX. BARBARA . . .. . . . 244 XXXI. DEUTSCHLAUNEDB ER M ISS D URWAR . D 251 XXXII. MR. DUVALA DVISES , ... . .. . 257 XXXIII. ADAMA CCELERATE . S ... . 264 XXXIV. OUT OF GEAR . . . . . 272 XXXV. SURRENDE , R . .. . 280 XXXVI. LONDONLSA STA IR-RAID . -., ... , . 287 XXXVII. AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED . . 297 XXXVIII. AND L IVE H D APPIL E Y V ER A FTER . . 305 IN LONDON CHAPTER ONE ARRIVES ON a spring morning in the second decade of the twentieth century, a young man came out of Paddington Station and looked for the first time, with doubtful eyes, upon the world of London. He was a very young man, not quite seventeen,. yet in essentials was he a man, and, what in the eyes of a few million people is for some odd reason - accounted something more, an Irishman. If you had asked his name as he came out of the station he would almost certainly have told you, unsuspicious of your good faith and right to question him, that it was Adam Macfadden. But names more glorious, if no more distinctive, might be obtained for half a crown on application for a copy of his baptismal certificate at the Pro-Cathedral or Church of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, in Marlborough Street, Dublin. The names given him in the hope of making him a Chrisom child such as even in old age was Falstaff were Adam Byron OToole Dudley Wyndham and Innocent. Names, as was observed on that occasion by Mr. Byron OToole, his more than godfather, to Mr. Malachy Macfadden, who probably conceived himself to be no less, that sounded nobly in the ear, cost nothing, and looked well on paper. Adam was thinking of paper and the things that look well on it as he came out of Paddington, for his eye was full of a poster that had obtruded itself upon him at every suburban station through which he had been whisked into the terminus. He wondered why he found it familiar and what it meant a dainty lady in pyjamas was pursued by a blufffy eager gentleman in a nightdress across a ribbon of letterpress demanding Who Can Stop It If there were words, as he took for granted, at the top of the poster, his eyes had failed to catch them but he guessed it to be the bill of a play, and not the sort of play that he would admit had any interest for him. . . . The whole thing was absurd and a little indelicate. . . . Yet he felt an interest in that poster as though that lady and that gentleman were old acquaintances encountered in a foreign land...