I’m indebted to Robert Dawson and Brent Warren for reading an early draft. Any errors or oversights are mine alone.
About the Author
KATE HEARTFIELD is a former newspaper editor and columnist in Ottawa, Canada. Her novel Armed in Her Fashion (ChiZine Publications) was published in 2018, as was her interactive novel The Road to Canterbury (Choice of Games). Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons and Lackington’s. Her website is heartfieldfiction.com and she tweets at @kateheartfield.
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BOOKS BY KATE HEARTFIELD
Alice Payne Arrives
Armed in Her Fashion
The Course of True Love
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
CHAPTER ONE: By Which a Hostess’s Intentions Are Made Plain
CHAPTER TWO: One Woman Too Many
CHAPTER THREE: One Woman Too Few
CHAPTER FOUR: How She Met Herself
CHAPTER FIVE: Being a Short Chapter, with Kissing
CHAPTER SIX: In Which Prudence Talks to Her Sister; or Not
CHAPTER SEVEN: Concerning Colonel Payne
CHAPTER EIGHT: In Which Our Lovers Take Each Other by the Hand
CHAPTER NINE: In Which Prudence Lies to the Servants
CHAPTER TEN: Where Alice Went Next
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Where Prudence Went Next
CHAPTER TWELVE: In Which Alice Is Foolhardy
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: In Which Jane Is Foolhardy
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Of the Substance of the Horrible Event
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: On the Fragile History of Grace Zuniga
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Black Spot
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Time Is Short, or, a Scheme Is Hatched
CHAPTER NINETEEN: On Captain Auden’s Conscience
CHAPTER TWENTY: Containing Sundry Curious Events
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: A Dinner Party and What Comes After
The Most Recent Draft of History
Acknowledgments
About the Author
BOOKS BY KATE HEARTFIELD
Copyright Page
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novella are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
ALICE PAYNE RIDES
Copyright © 2019 by Kate Heartfield
All rights reserved.
Cover design by Christine Foltzer
Cover art by Cliff Nielsen
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