Two file://C:\Documents and Settings\nickunj\Desktop\book.html 10/28/2009 Page 2 of 128 THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES WERE SO THICK AND verdant… Three “THEY SAY THEY’LL BE CALLING TROOPS HOME SOON,” Colonel Copper… Four THE HEAT WAS STIFLING, AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE inch of floor—from… Five “THEY’VE ALL GROWN SO SMALL,” PENELOPE SCHOONMAKER announced, several hours… Six “DRINK UP NOW, BOYS!” CRIED DIANA HOLLAND, IN a brassy… Seven BY FOUR O’CLOCK ELIZABETH WAS FEELING RATHER fatigued, for she… Eight ELITE NEW YORK WAS SITUATED IN A HIERARCHY of boxes,… Nine “HOW LUCKY I FOUND YOU JUST WHEN I DID, because… Ten MONDAY AFTERNOON WAS THE TIME WHEN elegant people dropped by… Eleven DIANA WATCHED THE SKYLINE OF HAVANA DRAW away from her… Twelve IN THE CAIRNS BROWNSTONE, ON AN EMINENTLY respectable stretch of… Thirteen CAROLINA STEPPED INTO THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL in a cloud… Fourteen “OH, NUMBER SEVENTEEN!” DIANA REQUIRED A DAINTY twirl to fully… Fifteen A HAZE OF CIGAR SMOKE HUNG OVER THE GILDED ballroom… Sixteen DINNER HAD BEEN CLEARED AND PORT WAS being served in… Seventeen THE NOTE SLID INTO CAROLINA’S FIELD OF VISION with such… Eighteen PENELOPE ENTERED THE LARGE SECOND-FLOOR drawing room Monday afternoon, and… Nineteen file://C:\Documents and Settings\nickunj\Desktop\book.html 10/28/2009 Page 3 of 128 THE YOUNG COUPLE DESCENDED THE HIGH TRAIN platform and joined… Twenty THE TWO MRS.
