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Tables of Contents for Homecomings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part One - Homecoming
Lighted Window Seen from the Street
3
7
Two Kinds of Business Method
10
10
The Point of a Circuitous Approach
20
8
Handclasp on a Hot Night
28
9
Inadmissible Hope
37
7
Frown under the Bedside Lamp
44
6
Triumph of R S Robinson
50
7
'You've Done All You Could'
57
6
A Goodbye in the Morning
63
5
No Letter in the Room
68
6
Claustrophobia in an Empty House
74
5
The Smell of Herb Tobacco
79
7
A Smooth Bedcover
86
3
Part TWO - THE SELF-DEFEATED
Loan of a Book
89
6
Confidential Offer
95
4
Fog above the River
99
4
Business on New Year's Day
103
6
The Sweetness of Life
109
4
Two Sisters
113
4
A Darkening Window
117
8
The Acquiescent Versus the Opaque
125
9
Mention of a Man's Name
134
4
Gigantesque
138
9
Mild Wind after a Quarrel
147
5
Catch of Breath in the Darkness
152
5
From the Last Light to the First
157
4
View of a Swinging Door
161
6
Part Three - CONDITION OF A SPECTATOR
A Change of Taste
167
7
First Interview of George Passant
174
9
Spectator's Paradise
183
8
Announcement in a Newspaper
191
7
Outside the House
198
8
Pathology of Spectators
206
8
Confidential Offer in Reverse
214
4
Simple Question on Top of a Bus
218
7
Reading-lamp Alight in a Peaceful Room
225
10
Part Four - THE UNDETACHED
Smell of Leaves in the Rain
235
7
Significance of a Quarrel
242
6
Illusion of Invisibility
248
5
Happiness and Make-believe
253
5
End of an Epoch
258
8
Apparent Choice
266
10
Visit from a Well-wisher
276
7
Second Interview of George Passant
283
12
Frigid Drawing-room
295
8
Last Train to a Provincial Town
303
5
Middle of the Night
308
5
Part Five - ANOTHER HOMECOMING
Birth of a Son
313
9
A Child Looking at the Moon
322
9
Comparison of Marriages
331
5
Listening to the Next Room
336
9
Photophobia
345
7
Act of Courage
352
8
'Come With Me'
360
3
Effects of an Obligation
363
5
The Short Walk Home
368