When it is rumored about in Santa Paloma that Mrs. Burgoyne, a widow and
heiress to many millions, has bought an old-fashioned and somewhat
run-down estate and intends to make her home in the little California
town, food for gossip at all the bridge clubs is furnished for more than
one meeting. To live well in Santa Paloma involves heavy expenditures
for all sorts of social functions and many a family feels the strain
which, however, they would not admit for worlds. The society clique
think that everything will be run on even a more gorgeous scale with
Mrs. Burgoyne's millions in the game, but they reckon without the
possessor of these millions, as the successive events of the story show
in a highly entertaining fashion.
LONDON LAVENDER
By E. V. Lucas