An ocean voyage and the society of England and the Continent bring together a group of well-to-do Americans and their aristocratic acquaintances. Courtships form and falter on deck, in country houses and in gardens like a fairyland of trees and pergolas, as old-fashioned devotion meets the freer manners of the new century.
A graceful society novel by a popular Virginian-born author, for readers who enjoy the transatlantic novel of manners. Download the free EPUB.