If living well is the best revenge, living fabulously
well can inspire rebellion--especially in those
who have to clean up after the party is over.
For "Mrs." Madeline Memory, head house-
keeper at Palm Beach s Royal Poinciana hotel,
exclusive winter preserve of the rich and famous,
the "season" of 1896-97 seems unlikely to offer
the fulfillment long denied her, restricted as it
will be to maintaining the grim facade of a prim,
dedicated employee.
Then into Maddy s chambered life barges one
of the hotel s liveliest guests, the smoothly attrac-
tive and thoroughly unattached Harrison St.
John Loring. Masquerading as a financier who
works when he chooses and plays with abandon,
Harry Loring is in fact a glib confidence man.
Though Maddy has been formally enjoined from
fraternizing with the guests, she comes to see the
genuinely affectionate "investor" as her one
chance at a splash of color on an otherwise muted
canvas, and there follows a series of elaborate
deceptions and escapades that add up to a tale of
many parts: of social portraiture (how the overin-
dulgent of that glittering age dressed, ate, and
played), of love(in an era when sex was a four-
letter word), of poses and illusions, of scandals
and white-gloved crime. The illicit, Bittersweet
romance at the heart of the narrative soars and
ebbs and constantly renews itself as it finally
draws its lovers together in an enduring com-
plicity.
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