The soft voice of the serpent.--The catch.--The kindest thing to do.--The hour and the years.--The train from Rhodesia.--A watcher of the dead.--Treasures of the sea.--The prisoner.--Is there nowhere else where we can meet?--The amateurs.--A present for a good girl.--La vie bohème.--Ah, woe is me.--Another part of the sky.--The umbilical cord.--The talisman.--The end of the tunnel.--The defeated.--A commonplace story.--Monday is better than Sunday.--In the beginning.