One Of Them

A lively comic narrative follows a company of travellers at an Italian spa whose chance acquaintances generate a sequence of social portraits and episodic adventures. Encounters among a strikingly dressed widow, a loquacious parliamentarian, a brash American, and other tourists move the action through salon talk, letters, and reminiscences into visits to villas, cities, and resorts. The episodes mix humour and sentiment while satirizing travel manners, political bluster, and pretension, and build a web of romantic and financial complications that unfold across continental settings with wit and picturesque travel detail.