Word: octavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAST OF CHARACTERS Manuel Arthur Lewis Carmen Campos Georgia Harvey Dona Marciala Katherine Grey Don Evaristo Fred Tiden Papa Juan Otis Skinner Dona Filomena Octavia Kenmore Eulalia Mary Howard Trino Hardie Albright Currita Mary Arbena Rosa Veronica Rey Antonon Charles Dalton Alonso Gerald Hamer...
...Compton had thought so to win her, his calculations played him false. For Octavia's intense vitality was quickly engrossed in pursuit of hounds on the scent. Debonair Lord Tilbury loaded her with flowers, declared his love. And a highly respected Master of Hounds, dull, substantial, shy, delegated his mother to propose marriage. Octavia would make a fitting mistress to a world of vigorous horsemen...
...their vitality, theirs was an automatic existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...
...exception to the category was young Greville. Vacationing from arduous if undefined politico-humanitarian labors, he offered Octavia stimulating relief from the world of hounds and their masters. Relief developed quickly into greater emotion, and they were shortly whisked off on the conventional Riviera wedding trip. That Octavia detested the still-born placidity of the Riviera made more difficult the time-honored difficulties of early married adjustment. But, back in England, the understanding professor assists her with literary quotations to live with her husband happily ever afterward...
...Author. Emma Alice Margaret Tennant was one of twelve children, born and bred on just such a Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...