PART ONE A QUESTION OF POSSIBILITY 7
1 Argument with a Brother 7
2 A Code Name 14
3 What might have been Foresight 18
4 Result of a Manoeuvre 20
5 Advice from a Man in Trouble 25
6 Morning Before the Office 31
7 Voice from a Bath 39
PART TWO THE EXPERIMENT 45
8 Gambling by a Cautious Man 45
9 View of a True Marriage 49
10 A Night at Pratt＇s 54
11 Two Kinds of Danger 58
12 A Routine Interview 62
13 Beside the Smooth Water 66
14 Unexpected Encouragement 70
15 Sister-in-Law 73
16 Points on a Graph 77
17 Quarrel at First Light 85
PART THREE A RESULT IN PUBLIC 95
18 Request for a Official Opinion 95
19 A New Whisper 98
20 The Taste of Triumph 103
21 Beam of Light over the Snow 108
22 Swearing in a Hospital Ward 115
23 ＇Events Too Big for Men＇ 123
24 ＇What is Important?＇ 129
25 Standard Roses in the Sunshine 133
26 Need for a Brother 142
PART FOUR A RESULT IN PRIVATE 149
27 An Uneffaceable Afternoon 149
28 ＇What do you Expect from him Now?＇ 154
29 Hushed Voices under the Beams 160
30 A Joyous Moment in the Fog 165
31 Situation Designed for a Clear Head 169
32 Distress out of Proportion 174
33 Wife and Husband 177
34 Warm to the Touch 183
35 The Brilliance of Suspicion 189
36 A Cartoon-like Resemblance 193
37 The Lonely Men 196
38 Words in the Open 203
PART FIVE TWO BROTHERS 211
39 Technique Behind a High Reward 211
40 Visit to a Prisoner 215
41 Lights Twinkling in the Cold 219
42 A Place to Stand? 225
43 A New Empire 230
44 Two Brothers 233