Some wear and discoloration on book jacket Doubleday, 1954, 313 pages Flora Vandal (christened Florabella) was talented, charming, and often irascible. And nothing irked her so much as the aimless arty parties given by her uncle Eustace in his house on Gordon Square ... except, perhaps, Uncle Eustace himself. That aged, elegant poseur-a planetary bogus-was at the moment surrounded by satellites downing his liquor and singing his praises. Flora detested sycophants and Uncle Eustace. Marquis was the only man there Flora admired. He was mystery em-bodied, a melancholy literary figure with an unemotional air. But Marquis suddenly dropped his detachment when a lovely, silky girl named Camille appeared at the house in Gordon Square. Flora thought her heart would break. It was on the following day that Uncle Eustace made the unpardonable request of an independent young lady whose heart had just been broken. He asked her to come to the house in Gordon Square for a month with Camille.