Kissing Kin (2013)
“SUMMER IN CANNES 1922 2. SUMMER IN CANNES 1922 BRACKEN HAD ALREADY gone abroad to observe the Economic Conference at Genoa, and was expecting to join Dinah in London at its conclusion. The season there promised to be the gayest since the war, as most of the big houses which had been hospitals were by now restored to normal, and the first regular Courts were being resumed after a seven years’ gap. Virginia’s Irene, just eighteen, was being presented, and Winifred, who had no girls of coming-out ...age, was giving her a ball at the St. James’s Square house.
Camilla sailed on the new Berengaria with Dinah, who was delighted to have her as a guest, and Sue gave her a generous cheque for spending money and new clothes. It was Camilla’s first experience of the fashionable world without the shadow of war across it, and was much the best tonic which could have been prescribed, for Calvert had long ago made her promise not to mope and mourn, if anything—the old pitiful euphemism—happened to him.MoreLess
Camilla sailed on the new Berengaria with Dinah, who was delighted to have her as a guest, and Sue gave her a generous cheque for spending money and new clothes. It was Camilla’s first experience of the fashionable world without the shadow of war across it, and was much the best tonic which could have been prescribed, for Calvert had long ago made her promise not to mope and mourn, if anything—the old pitiful euphemism—happened to him.MoreLess
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