ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
"'Why, Breck, don't be absurd! I wouldn't marry you for anything in the world'" Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
"'Men seem to want to make just nice soft pussy-cats out of us, with ribbons round our necks, and hear us purr'" 128
"Straight ahead she gazed; straight ahead she rode; unafraid, eager, hopeful; the flag her only staff" 170
"I was the only one in her whole establishment whom she wasn't obliged to treat as a servant and menial" 202