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FIFTY YEARS AGO, EVERY AMERICAN GIRL WANTED to be a…
IN THE MORNINGS, SHE LIKED TO WALK ALONG THE seawall.
THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES WERE SO THICK AND verdant…
“THEY SAY THEY’LL BE CALLING TROOPS HOME SOON,” Colonel Copper…
THE HEAT WAS STIFLING, AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE inch of floor—from…
“THEY’VE ALL GROWN SO SMALL,” PENELOPE SCHOONMAKER announced, several hours…
“DRINK UP NOW, BOYS!” CRIED DIANA HOLLAND, IN a brassy…
BY FOUR O’CLOCK ELIZABETH WAS FEELING RATHER fatigued, for she…
ELITE NEW YORK WAS SITUATED IN A HIERARCHY of boxes,…
“HOW LUCKY I FOUND YOU JUST WHEN I DID, because…
MONDAY AFTERNOON WAS THE TIME WHEN elegant people dropped by…
DIANA WATCHED THE SKYLINE OF HAVANA DRAW away from her…
IN THE CAIRNS BROWNSTONE, ON AN EMINENTLY respectable stretch of…
CAROLINA STEPPED INTO THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL in a cloud…
“OH, NUMBER SEVENTEEN!” DIANA REQUIRED A DAINTY twirl to fully…
A HAZE OF CIGAR SMOKE HUNG OVER THE GILDED ballroom…
DINNER HAD BEEN CLEARED AND PORT WAS being served in…
THE NOTE SLID INTO CAROLINA’S FIELD OF VISION with such…
PENELOPE ENTERED THE LARGE SECOND-FLOOR drawing room Monday afternoon, and…
THE YOUNG COUPLE DESCENDED THE HIGH TRAIN platform and joined…
THE TWO MRS. SCHOONMAKERS STRODE ARM IN arm across the polished…
BUT WHY HAD HE NOT COME TO MEET HER?
HENRY STARED INTO THE ALABASTER OVAL OF A face that…
“SO WHICH ONE OF THESE FELLOWS IS MY RIVAL?” the…
THE GHOSTLY GASOLIER LIGHT FELL ON MR. AND Mrs. Cairns, as the…
ON TUESDAY THE HEAT BROKE, AND FOR DIANA ALL OF…
“IT SIMPLY WON’T DO,” CAROLINA SAID, STARING INTO a reflection…
“WHAT DOES SHE THINK SHE’S DOING HERE?”
THE REVEREND’S DRONING HAD CEASED AND THE bagpipes had picked…
THE RIDE BACK TO THE SCHOONMAKER MANSION on Fifth was…
“THE PUBLIC DOES LIKE THIS SORT OF THING,” Davis Barnard…
THE WALLS WERE DEEP RED. A LACY WHITE CANOPY obscured…
“THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.”
THE BELLS HAD RUNG ONE O’CLOCK, BUT ALL OF the…
MRS. HENRY SCHOONMAKER WAS PERFECTLY content to step outside the gothic…
HENRY HAD WAITED ON THE STOOP OF NO. 17 Gramercy…
DIANA UNDID HER HAT AND DROPPED IT ON THE piece…
BY THREE O’CLOCK CAROLINA HAD REMOVED THE veil, although she…
THERE WERE NO MORE ANGELS FOR ELIZABETH, not even in…
HENRY HAD STAYED UP ALL MONDAY NIGHT GOING over documents…
DAYLIGHT HAD BECOME SHIMMERINGLY VISIBLE IN the fanlight over the…
“I DO HOPE IT WON’T BE A BOTHER,” MRS. HENRY Schoonmaker…
“MISS BROAD, IS THERE ANYTHING I COULD GET for you,…
“I DON’T KNOW THAT I AM READY TO GO IN…
THERE HAD BEEN DAYS, AND MAYBE EVEN WHOLE years, when…
TO HER HORROR, PENELOPE WOKE TO THE VIEW of her…