Table of Contents:
A meeting in middle age
Access to the children
The general's day
Memories of Youghal
The table
A school story
The penthouse apartment
In at the birth
The introspections of J.P. Powers
The day we got drunk on cake
Miss Smith
The hotel of the idle moon
Nice day at school
The original sins of Edward Tripp
The forty seventh Saturday
The ballroom of romance
A happy family
The grass widows
The mark 2 wife
An evening with John Joe Dempsey
Kinkies
Going home
A choice of butchers.O fat white woman
Raymond Bamber and Mrs Fitch
The distant past
In Isfahan
Angels at the Ritz
The death of Peggy Meehan
Mrs. Silly
A complicated nature
Teresa's wedding
Office romances
Mr. McNamara
Afternoon dancing
Last wishes
Mrs. Acland's ghosts
Another Christmas
Broken homes
The tennis court
The summer house
The drawing room
Torridge
Death in Jerusalem
Lovers of their time
The raising of Elvira Tremlett
Flights of fancy
Attracta
A dream of butterflies
The bedroom eyes of Mrs Vansittart
Downstairs at Fitzgerald's.Mulvihill's memorial
Beyond the pale
The blue dress
The teddy bears picnic
The time of year
Being stolen from
Mr. Tennyson
Autumn sunshine
Sunday drinks
The Paradise Lounge
Mags
The news from Ireland
On the Zattere
The wedding in the garden
Lunch in winter
The property of Colette Nervi
Running away
Cocktails at Doney's
Her mother's daughter
Bodily secrets
Two more gallants
The smoke trees of San Pietro
Virgins
Music
Events at Drimaghleen
Family sins
A trinity
The third party.Honeymoon in Tramore
The printmaker
In love with Ariadne
A husband's return
Coffee with Oliver
August Saturday
Children of the headmaster
Kathleen's field.