Prologue 1 A Conversation with the Iron Orchid 2 A Soirée at the Duke of Queens 3 A Visitor Who is Less than Entertaining 4 Carnelian Conceives a New Affectation 5 A Menagerie of Time and Space 6 A Pleasing Meeting: The Iron Orchid Devises a Scheme 7 To Steal a Space-Traveller 8 A Promise from Mrs. Amelia Underwood: A Mystery 9 Something of an Idyll: Something of a Tragedy 10 The Granting of Her Heart's Desire 11 The Quest for Bromley 12 The Curious Comings and Goings of Snoozer Vine 13 The Road to the Gallows: Old Friends in New Guises 14 A Further Conversation with the Iron Orchid
1 In Which Jherek Carnelian Continues to be in Love 2 Playing at Ships 3 A Petitioner at the Court of Time 4 To the Warm Snow Peaks 5 On the Hunt 6 The Brigand Musicians 7 A Conflict of Illusions 8 The Children of the Pit 9 Nurse's Sense of Duty 10 On the Bromley Road Again 11 A Conversation on Time Machines and Other Topics 12 The Awful Dilemma of Mrs. Amelia Underwood 13 Strange Events in Bromley One Night in the Summer of 1896 14 A Scarcity of Time Machines 15 Entrained for the Metropolis 16 The Mysterious Mr. Jackson 17 A Particularly Memorable Night at the Café Royale 18 To the Time Machine, At Last! 19 In Which Jherek Carnelian and Mrs. Amelia Underwood Debate Certain Moral Problems
1 In Which Jherek Carnelian and Mrs. Amelia Underwood Commune, to some Degree, with Nature 2 In Which Inspector Springer Tastes the Delights of the Simple Life 3 A Lower Devonian Tea 4 A Fresh Quest — On the Trail of the Hamper 5 At the Time Centre 6 Discussions and Decisions 7 En Route for the End of Time 8 All Travellers Returned: A Celebration 9 The Past is Honoured: The Future Reaffirmed 10 In Which The Iron Orchid is not Quite Herself 11 A Few Quiet Moments in the Menagerie 12 In Which Lord Mongrove Reminds Us of Inevitable Doom 13 The Honour of an Underwood 14 Various Alarums, a Good Deal of Confusion, a Hasty Excursion 15 In Which Jherek Carnelian and Mrs. Underwood find Sanctuary of Sorts, and Mr. Underwood Makes a New Friend 16 The Skull Beneath the Paint 17 Some Confusion Concerning the Exact Nature of the Catastrophe 18 In Which Truths are Revealed and Certain Relationships are Defined 19 In Which Differences of Opinion are Expressed and Relationships Further Defined 20 In Which Lord Jagged of Canaria Exhibits a Frankness not Previously Displayed 21 A Question of Attitudes 22 Inventions and Resurrections 23 Amelia Underwood Transformed 24 The Vision in the City 25 The Call to Duty 26 Wedding Bells at the End of Time 27 Conversations and Conclusions
