Hilma

331 pp. Color plate by Harrison Fisher on front boards. EXCERPT: "Was it not natural that at first I felt I was in strange company? Then I ceased to wonder. Perhaps events crowded in too quickly. However that may be, I know I soon found myself playing a part, fighting a fight, as if I always had, and now I shut my eyes and glory in it as in some fair dream. I thank Fate I had my turn upon that stage, and though the pang is there I have recompense for every heartache. It was all to have met her and helped to do what was done. And then there is a thought Of some thing that may yet transpire."