E-text prepared by David Edwards, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (https://books.google.com) Transcriber's Note: The book, "Ships That Pass in the Night", by Beatrice Harraden,mentioned in the forenote, is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12476 [Pg i] [Pg i] THEDISAGREEABLE WOMAN. A SOCIAL MYSTERY. BY JULIAN STARR. NEW YORK: Copyright, 1895, byG. W. Dillingham, Publisher, Successor to G. W. Carleton & Co.MDCCCXCV. Copyright, 1895, by Successor to G. W. Carleton & Co. [All Rights Reserved.] [Pg iii] [Pg iii] CONTENTS. Chapter Page [Pg iv] [Pg v] [Pg v]