Early in the twentieth century, on the terrace of a Dutch seaside resort hotel, very late in the season, Lady de Grey, patroness of the Royal Italian Opera, and Harry Cust, a newspaper editor who may be her lover, linger at the shore, full of suppressed regrets and dread, endure the ministrations of a sinister waiter and observe some unspeakable, ambiguous and possibly horrifying events transpiring near the edge of the sea.
Published in Gorgons & Other Plays.