E.F. Benson
Lucia in London
- Chapter One
Pepino inherits a Brompton Square house and three thousand a year, and Georgie and Daisy Quantock weigh what Lucia will do with it.
- Chapter Two
Pepino inherits a house at 25 Brompton Square, and Lucia announces they will spend the season in London, embracing Stravinski and the wireless.
- Chapter Three
Lucia and Pepino leave Riseholme for London, and Daisy Quantock's Abfou planchette prompts her and Georgie to found a Riseholme Museum.
- Chapter Four
Georgie stays with Olga for the first night of Lucrezia, and Lucia waylays her outside her door to force her way into the after-party.
- Chapter Five
Lucia brings a London party to Riseholme and ignores the locals, then Olga arrives with Princess Isabel and lunches with Georgie instead.
- Chapter Six
Riseholme snubs Lucia for parading her London guests, as Daisy Quantock, Mrs Boucher and Georgie all decline her invitations.
- Chapter Seven
Lucia recruits Stephen Merriall as a pretend lover for the cachet, while Adele and Tony form a secret society of Luciaphils to follow her career.
- Chapter Eight
Lucia retreats to Riseholme feigning complete rest after Marcia Whitby leaves her off the ball list, then races back when the invitation arrives
- Chapter Nine
At Adele's country house party Lucia mistakes Stephen's room for her own at midnight, and both freeze in horror before feigning a lovers' quarrel.
- Chapter Ten
Lucia decides to sell her London house, secretly learns golf to beat Daisy Quantock, and returns Lady Ambermere's stuffed dog Pug to the Museum.
- Chapter Eleven
Lucia's planchette spirit Vittoria foretells fire, water and moonlight, then Daisy's oil stoves burn down the Riseholme Museum overnight.