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Griselda Tumpence and her aunt, tired of their names and their ordinary lives, decide to holiday at a hotel frequented by bohemians, posing as the wealthy Vivienne and Madame Farrango. Griselda falls in love with an actor, Herod Blair, but he seems reluctant to fall in love with her.
Deamer discusses letter-writing in the past and the copious written material which has been found in rubbish sites dating back two thousand years. She quotes a number of letters from Lady Brooke's Private Letters, Pagan and Christian.