It is a long and golden summer in the Edwardian period. London is
abuzz with gentlemen in tall hats and ladies in flowing silk, some
with money, and others who want it badly. Love and marriage are the
great game, but the adventure is vastly varied, depending on who is
playing. Creatures of wit find it their most impressive subject;
creatures of love are either pinnacled or torn apart by its
demands. Felicity, Sylvia and Savile Crofton, aged 25, 20 and 16
respectively, are deep in the melee. Felicity is married to Lord
Chetwode, the man of her dreams, and is largely happy, but she is
already feeling deeply the falling-off of contact as he pursues
horseflesh and antiques across the country in ever-longer stays
away. Her younger sister Sylvia is very much in the market,
according to her father, who has many ideas of whom she might
marry, but particularly favours a Greek millionaire, Mr Ridokanaki.
He has no idea that her great love is his penniless secretary,
Frank Woodville. Their brother Savile, on holiday from Eton, has
not only the spirited attentions of young Dolly Clive to contend
with, but also his great passion for an opera singer, whom he loves
from afar. Somehow, all their problems must be brought to a
satisfactory conclusion. A typically confident Savile tries to
engineer a solution, but in the end it is love itself which cuts
through. Ada Leverson (nee Beddington) was born in 1862. She
married Ernest Leverson at the age of 19, against her parents'
consent, but the marriage was not a success. She became a
contributor to several literary and artistic journals including
Black and White, St Stephen's Review and, most notably, The Yellow
Book in the 1890s. It was at this time, after she published a
brilliantly successful sketch parody of his novel The Picture of
Dorian Gray, that Oscar Wilde desired to meet her, and dubbed her
The Sphinx. They became the greatest of friends, and she was
instrumental in helping him after the disaster of his trial, when
many others deserted him. Her six sparklingly witty novels were
published between 1907 and 1916. She died in 1933.
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