Cynthia's Chauffeur

How it begins.

Derby Day fell that year on the first Wednesday in June. By a whim of the British climate, the weather was fine; in fact, no rain had fallen on southern England since the previous Sunday. Wise after the event, the newspapers published cheerful "forecasts," and certain daring "experts" discussed the probabilities of a heat wave. So London, on that bright Wednesday morning, was agog with excitement over its annual holiday; and at such a time London is the gayest and liveliest city in the world. And then, wholly independent of the weather, there was the Great Question.

Cynthia's Chauffeur · Louis Tracy

• LilyStandardBritish · female · the free engine0:29

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