For 16 years Miss Bentley has actually been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist papa has lately died as well as the just various other English-speaking guests are bold Americans. After that Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up-- not also considering it-- as she helps the new baby-sitter of an Italian household settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of completing institution in Switzerland, is tired and finds some enjoyment in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the very first time since prior to the excellent war. As well as Miss Bentley currently locates even more about the major to admire than his ears.
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For 16 years Miss Bentley has actually been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist papa has lately died as well as the just various other English-speaking guests are bold Americans. After that Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up-- not also considering it-- as she helps the new baby-sitter of an Italian household settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of completing institution in Switzerland, is tired and finds some enjoyment in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the very first time since prior to the excellent war. As well as Miss Bentley currently locates even more about the major to admire than his ears.
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