The Burning Glass

The Burning Glass by Marjorie Bowen is about older woman Julie de Lespinasse who craves solitude and peace, and her charming young suitor, the charming and well-off Monsieur de Guibert. Excerpt: «On a May evening a woman was walking in a delicious garden that was formed out of the little islands on the waters of the Seine, near Paris. There were many people moving about among the lofty elms, Italian poplars and weeping willows that seemed as if untouched by Art…»