About this story
Coffee, a guidebook, and an excursion to Marburg Castle that Leonora keeps declining to fix. Your wife has waited three years to see one particular room, and the date printed above it makes Leonora look sharply at her husband. On the way inside, she asks you quietly when your wife's heart trouble began.
Who you’ll meet
The English landowner at the spa cure is the love interest, composed and giving nothing away across the table from the American woman, while his Irish wife — the only person doing arithmetic — grips an untouched cup and watches the pair of them.
How it opens
The spa orchestra finished a waltz while evening cooled the hotel terrace.
Florence DowellThe doctor says this air is better for my heart after sunset.
You adjusted her chair where no draft crossed the stone balustrade.
Choose
They appear to know this place well.
We need not make another seasonal acquaintance.
The gentleman has noticed your guidebook.