She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language.Among the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasuresFlora was a ten-year-old misfit.Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was peripherally included in their gracious circles.And there, meeting kindly civilized people for the first time, she fell in lovewith Cosmo, with Hubert, with Feix.It took40 years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated, and finally resolved."