The Stories: The balance -- A house of gentlefolks -- The manager of "The Kremlin" -- Love in the slump -- Too much tolerance -- Excursion in Reality -- Incident in Azania -- Bella Fleace gave a party -- Cruise -- The man who liked Dickens -- out of depth -- By speical request -- Period piece -- On guard -- Mr. Loveday's little outing -- Winner takes all -- An Englishman's home -- The sympathetic passenger -- My father's house -- Lucy Simmonds -- Charles Ryder's schooldays -- Scott-King's modern Europe -- tactical exercise -- compassion -- Love among the ruins -- Basil Seal rides again ; Juvenilia: The curse of the horse race -- Fidon's confetion -- Multa pecunia -- Fragment of a novel -- Essay -- The house: an anti-climax ; Oxford stories: Portrait of young man with career -- Antony, who sought things that were lost -- Edward of unique achievement -- Fragments: they dine with the past -- Conspiracy to murder -- Unacademic exercise: a nature story -- The national game.