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 special 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.