The original edition was published with the subtitle _A Comedy of Manners_, and the author used the pseudonym Stella Martin. The book was later published as _Powder and Patch_, with Chapter Twenty deleted. If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurst and Brighthelmstone, inland a little, and nestling in modest seclusion between two waves of hills, you would find Little Fittledean, a village round which three gentlemen had built their homes. One chose the north side, half a mile away, and on the slope of the Downs. He was Mr. Winton, a dull man with no wife, but two children, James and Jennifer. The second built his house west of the village, not far from the London …
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