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The Girl on the Boat

First published: 1922
Pages: 210

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A Disturbing Morning
23:20
Gallant Rescue by Well-Dressed Young Man, part 1
21:02
Gallant Rescue by Well-Dressed Young Man, part 2
23:07
Sam Paves the Way
19:02
Sam Clicks, part 1
19:36
Sam Clicks, part 2
15:36
Persecution of Eustace
11:51
Scene at a Ship's Concert
9:55
Sundered Hearts
20:57
Sir Mallaby Offers a Suggestion
25:00
Rough Work at a Dinner Table
22:03
Trouble at Windles
28:43
Mr. Bennett Has a Bad Night
18:32
The Lurid Past of John Peters
19:02
Shocks All Round
13:22
Strong Remarks by a Father
13:31
Drama at a Country House
22:26
Webster, Friend in Need
21:19
A Crowded Night, part 1
24:44
A Crowded Night, part 2
22:45
A Crowded Night, part 3
17:31
A Crowded Night, part 4
18:38

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Wilhelmina Bennett, known as Billie, has red hair, a devotion to dogs, and an unfortunate habit of getting engaged. Aboard a White Star liner bound from New York to England she is promised to Eustace Hignett, a nervous poet thoroughly cowed by his mother, a celebrated writer on theosophy. Eustace's cousin Sam Marlowe falls for Billie roughly on sight and spends the crossing, then a long English summer, trying to prove himself heroic through schemes that collapse under him. Ashore the comedy shifts to Windles, the Hignett seat in Hampshire, let to the Bennetts behind Mrs Hignett's back and defended at one point with an elephant gun by Jane Hubbard, a big-game huntress with her own designs on Eustace. Wodehouse serialised it in 1921 as Three Men and a Maid.