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.