"Stacy Aumonier was profoundly in love with life, and impregnated through and through by curiosity about life and its manifestations. All types were fish to his net; and he has given us the fruits of his passion for existence with a deft and always interesting fidelity. He is never heavy, never boring, never really trivial and can't he write?" John Galsworthy

The stories are: Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty, "Face", One Sunday Morning, A Source of Irritation, Where Was Wych Street, The Bent Tree, The Great Unimpressionable, An Adventure In Bed, Little White Frock, The Spoil-Sport, The Funny Man's Day, Old Iron.