Between short novel and "large" short story, this chronicle of a scandal in the londonian aristocracy by the end of XIXth century hardly involves the XXIst century french reader I am. The quick and botched ending does not help, and rather suggests that what we have just read does not matter at all. Which is maybe, in the end,exactly what this impeccably written book tries to make us feel.

US stop for this story about americans in London, by one of the most british among american writers.