The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

“After dark on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf-cours…”

“Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the lon…”

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each …”

“Amory had loved himself in Eleanor, so now what he hated was only a mirror. The…”