page_title: The Way It Came
hierarchical_section_title: The Way It Came
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of the 1896 U.K. first edition of Embarrassmenfs by Henry James, published by William Heinemann, London. The volume contains four stories: "The Figure in the Carpet", "Glasses", "The Next Time", and "The Way It Came".
context_page_description: The Way It Came is a short story published in 1896 in London by American writer Henry James. The unnamed female narrator recounts her obsession with the mystical coincidence of two friends who seem destined to meet and who apparently do unite in spirit after death.
  Calling the story's original title "colourless", James renamed it "The Friends of the Friends" in 1909, revising it for inclusion in the New York Edition.
context_section_description: The Way It Came is a short story published in 1896 in London by American writer Henry James. The unnamed female narrator recounts her obsession with the mystical coincidence of two friends who seem destined to meet and who apparently do unite in spirit after death.
  Calling the story's original title "colourless", James renamed it "The Friends of the Friends" in 1909, revising it for inclusion in the New York Edition.
caption: Embarrassments, 1896, first U.K. edition of "The Way It Came"
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