An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Even Mother found the peacocks a little over the top, and Bel reserved a special loathing for them – all her Drama friends had turned Marxist in their Sophister year at Trinity and they gave her a fearful time about them. Bel usually prefers to mope about with her drama friends. On the night of their wedding Gene came back to Los Angeles, having agreed with Oleg, in the interests of diplomacy, to spend it apart: only to find that her mother had already fired the servants and flown home to New York City. And now, after a series of dramatic collapses, An Evening of Long Goodbyes finally hauled his carcass over the line, and the place went crazy.