4/7 'But, then, see further on!' 'Well the next bit is rather unkind, I must own,' said Mrs.Swancourt, and read on. '"Instead of this we found ourselves in the hands of some young lady, hardly arrived at years of discretion, to judge by the silly device it has been thought worth while to adopt on the title-page, with the idea of disguising her sex."' 'I am not "silly"!' said Elfride indignantly. 'He might have called me anything but that.' 'You are not, indeed. Well:--"Hands of a young lady...whose chapters are simply devoted to impossible tournaments, towers, and escapades, which read like flat copies of like scenes in the stories of Mr.G.P. R. |