"Stacy Aumonier was profoundly in love with life, and impregnated through and through by curiosity about life and its manifestations. All types were fish to his net; and he has given us the fruits of his passion for existence with a deft and always interesting fidelity. He is never heavy, never boring, never really trivial and can't he write?" John Galsworthy

The stories are:

• Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
• One Sunday Morning
• Face
• The Spoil-Sport
• A Source of Irritation
• Little White Frock
• Where Was Wych Street
• The Great Unimpressionable
• An Adventure In Bed
• The Funny Man's Day
• The Bent Tree
• Old Iron
• The Love a Duck

Stacy Aumonier (1887-1928) an English landscape painter and decorative designer, who later turned to writing. Nephew of artist James Aumonier. Aumonier died very young at the age of 41. He wrote many short stories but is little known today.