A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.
A domineering wife and mother unobtrusively and inexplicably vanishes.
A sweet-voiced but lonely bird finds refuge with an isolated statue.
Luitpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat, sits in a cafe in Vienna and contemplates news of the rise of the Balkan States.
A Wanderer and a Merchant argue over the downsides to modern war.
A witty dinner conversation in which Clovis decides it is time his mother thought about getting married.
When Henri Deplis becomes the canvas for the final masterpiece of the great tatoo artist Andreas Pincini, he finds that life as a living work of art is far from easy.
A newly imported King of England finds a harsh - but effective - way of dealing with the country's feminists.
When an wholly unsuitable man tries to aquire invitations to an aunt's picnic, the task of putting him off is left to Clovis.
Lady Barbara is charged with finding a suitably new and tasteful method for greeting the head of state of a small Euopean princedom.
Lady Bastable is - quite rightly - reluctant to look after young Clovis for a week.
An aspiring groom is given the task of designing an advertising campaign for the most disgusting cereal ever created.
The Duchess of Dulverton sends an errant nephew to search for underwater gold.
Jocantha decides to share her happiness with the less fortunate through a spot of afternoon philanthropy.
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way.
