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Alexa read Ruskin, John read Morand. Alexa admired the wrists and ankles of the Medici Venus, John admired those of the chambermaid.

They were not cut out to be travelling companions.

It's like playing 'Spot the Caricature' in this novel. The cast list so far:

* Alexa Harrowby Quince = Virginia Woolf
* Lord John Shorne = Vita Sackville-West
* Anne Lindell = Violet Trefusis

Her passion was like a prince's palace in which she would never completely be at home. She dared not open all the doors - she who had always been content with two or three little book-filled rooms, and who had never known this kind of magic except by hearsay.