CHAPTER THREEThe next day, what seemed to Karina an enormous number of people arrived for the weekend.
Most of them were businessmen with whom Garland was associated, but there were also young women, beautiful, sophisticated and exquisitely dressed, who made Karina feel gauche and shabby.
It appeared to her that Felix deliberately fostered the impression that she was an outsider, lonely and a little aloof from the others and therefore someone to pity.
She could not explain even to herself how this atmosphere was created around her and yet she was sure it was so and once again she felt that wild impulse to run away.
After luncheon, because she felt shy, she walked away from the crowd in the drawing room trying to make up their minds how they would spend the afternoon.
Moving down the c
