LADIES-IN-WAITING
By
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
CHRISTINE TUCKE CURTISS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FOREWORD
It may be urged that all proper heroines gothrough a period of uncertainty before givingtheir hands and hearts in marriage. Occasionally,however, there are longer seasonsof indecision, incident to pride, high temper,or misunderstanding on the lady’s side, orto poverty, undue timidity, or lack of highpressure on the part of the gentleman. Ihave christened the heroines of this volume“Ladies-in-Waiting,” and that no mentalpicture may be formed of Queen and Courtand Maids of Honor I have asked the artistto portray for the frontispiece a marriageablemaiden seated pensively upon a hillside.Her attitude is plainly one of suspendedanimation while the new moon above hershoulders suggests to the reader that shewill not wait in vain.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
August 11, 1919
Contents
| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| Miss Thomasina Tucker | 1 |
| The Turning-Point | 97 |
| Huldah The Prophetess | 145 |
| Two On A Tour | 183 |
| Philippa’s Nervous Prostration | 275 |