SOMETHING ABOUT EVE A Comedy of Fig-leaves BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL “I WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE I WAS NAKED: AND I HID MYSELF” LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED First Published in 1927 Made and Printed in Great Britain by Tonbridge Printers Peach Hall Works Tonbridge To ELLEN GLASGOW —very naturally—this book which commemorates the intelligence of women CONTENTS PART ONE: THE BOOK OF OUTSET