The American Chapter XVI

In which Newman enjoys a felicitous interval of society and gaiety among the French aristocracy, observing and conversing with a lively array of characters, from the delicately coquettish to the austere and the magnificently stately. The evening’s splendour, marked by delicate tensions and quiet revelations, culminates in moments of tender understanding and anticipatory contentment between Newman and Madame de Cintré.