trilby

But our friends did not think it necessary to reveal that she was "la grande Trilby."

The "boom" of Trilby, we are told, surprised du Maurier immensely, for he had not taken himself au sérieux as a novelist.

Trilby was a name that had long lain perdu somewhere "at the back of du Maurier's head."

The hypnotism in 'Trilby' was perhaps a journalist's idea, that subject being much talked of at the time the book was written.