E.F. Benson
Queen Lucia
- Chapter One
Lucia walks from the station to The Hurst, dismisses London to her husband Peppino, then sees Daisy Quantock walking with a turbaned Indian guru.
- Chapter Two
Lucia learns from Daisy Quantock's letter that Daisy has installed a penniless Indian Guru to teach her Yoga, and invites him to her garden party.
- Chapter Three
Georgie brings Lucia's note to Daisy Quantock, meets her Guru from Benares and asks to be his pupil, while Daisy plots to keep him and unseat Lucia.
- Chapter Four
Lady Ambermere tells Georgie that opera singer Olga Bracely is coming to Riseholme, then Lucia intercepts Daisy Quantock's Guru and takes him to lunch.
- Chapter Five
Lucia annexes Daisy Quantock's Guru over tiffin, installs him in her house and arranges yoga classes, while Georgie is left with the dog Tipsipoozie.
- Chapter Six
Georgie mistakes his sisters Hermy and Ursy for burglars and confronts them with a poker, then races Lucia to call on the singer Olga Bracely.
- Chapter Seven
Olga Bracely skips Lucia's garden party to lunch with Georgie, then arrives late and sings Siegfried after Lucia botches the accompaniment.
- Chapter Eight
Hermy and Ursy recognise the Guru as a Calcutta curry-cook, and he vanishes after robbing Lucia, Georgie and Daisy Quantock.
- Chapter Nine
Mrs Weston deduces that opera singer Olga Bracely has bought Old Place, and Lucia pretends she knew all along to spoil Georgie's news.
- Chapter Ten
Olga throws a gramophone party of games and dancing, Lucia arrives late and winces, then Olga sings Bach at church and Lucia plans a rival evening.
- Chapter Eleven
Lucia and Daisy Quantock clash over rival Saturday parties, Georgie realises he loves Olga, and Olga schemes to match Mrs Weston with Colonel Boucher.
- Chapter Twelve
Lucia dismisses Olga's quartet as the Brinton players, then learns they are the Spanish Quartet and cannot follow Cortese's Italian at dinner.
- Chapter Thirteen
Daisy Quantock brings medium Princess Popoffski to Riseholme for seances while excluding Lucia, then finds eyebrows and muslin proving fraud.
- Chapter Fourteen
Robert Quantock reads that Princess Popoffski was exposed as a fraud, so he buys and burns every newspaper to hide it from Daisy and Riseholme.
- Chapter Fifteen
Robert and Daisy confess they hid their medium's fraud, then Olga tells Georgie she is off to America and he says he adores her.
- Chapter Sixteen
Georgie catches Daisy Quantock dropping a pamphlet for lozenges she believes will make her grow taller, and she swears him to secrecy.