Introduction by Ann Beattie -- Reservations: A Love Story -- Nerves -- An Overwhelming Question -- There -- Demons -- At the Drugstore -- Two Pilgrims -- The Throughway -- At the Art Theater -- The End of Play -- A Cheerful Disposition -- The Decline and Fall of the Episcopal Church in the Year of Our Lord 1952 -- Mrs. Billingsby's Wine -- The Elect -- First Heat -- In the Waiting Room -- Dean of Men -- Daphne's Lover -- The Real Ghost -- The Instruction of a Mistress -- The Hand of Emmagene -- Three Heroines -- The Megalopolitans -- Her Need -- The Captain's Son -- In the Miro District -- The Old Forest -- The Gift of the Prodigal -- The Witch of Owl Mountain Springs: An Account of Her Remarkable Powers -- The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court.