Regardez-moi

Paul Sturgis is retired and lives alone in South Kensington. He dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only acquaintance is a widowed cousin whom he visits on Sundays. Unable to make sense of his solitary nature, and fearing death among strangers, he wonders whether at last he might be ready for companionship.

Strangers

Hotel du lac

After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance, drinking increasingly more wine, and, in an attempt to turn her energy to good works, becoming severely enmeshed in the life of a disordered young family.

Mésalliance

Porte de brandebourg (la)

Edith hope qui, sous un pseudonyme plus aguicheur, écrit des romans sentimentaux, s'est retirée à l'hôtel du lac, établissement cossu, situé en bordure du lac léman.
 " ceux qui croyaient me connaître ne tenaient pas à me voir changer ", dit-elle pour évoquer le carcan dans lequel elle vivait jusque-là enfermée et les raisons qui, vraisemblablement, l'ont incitée à choquer pour toujours la bonne société anglaise. 
Plutôt que de se confesser, la romancière écrit, écoute et observe : les attentions déployées par mr neville, séducteur du lieu ; la morgue de monica, jeune femme anorexique et bien vivante, que son mari répudiera bientôt ; les mimiques de mrs pusey et de sa fille, ou les malheurs de mme de bonneuil.

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Regardez-moi

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