In County Cork -- The strand -- Kitty -- Field of battle -- Miss Quirke -- Bad trip -- The bull -- The warden's wife -- Mentors -- Long Stewart -- Alma Mater -- Visitors in Dublin -- Summer, 1952 -- Blockley, Gloucestershire -- A public house man -- Sarzy -- Assia -- Out of season -- To Persia in the old days -- New York, 1973 -- In search of Siri -- The Valle Verzasca -- Journey to suburbia -- Eldorado -- Extraordinary ladies -- In their own shadows -- Old fusty -- With Mr Links in Venice -- The Nire.