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...London, Fran quickly annexed the cousin of aristocracy who made love to her while Sam attended a dinner given in his honor by his London agent. The dinner was at a Soho restaurant, and yet: There was a horseshoe table with seats for thirty. Along the table little American flags were set in pots of forget-me-nots. Behind the chairman's table was a portrait of President Coolidge, draped with red, white, and blue bunting, and about the wall−Heaven knows where Hurd could have collected them all−were shields and banners of Yale, Harvard...
...first time at ease with London, Sam returned contentedly to his hotel. Fran was sobbing. The Englishman had "insulted" her. She must go immediately to France...
Before long Fran had collected a flattering group of carpet knights, and while Sam "ran over" to Zenith for a disillusioning visit, Fran succumbed to the blandishments of an Austrian Jew. Sam forgave her, but made her "travel," only to discover that "if there is anything worse than the aching tedium of gazing out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs...
They rounded up at Berlin where Fran collected another lover, and this one she proposed to marry. Sam, bewildered, obligingly "deserted" to Paris where he found an honest harlot; to Italy where he found the improbable Edith. Edith thought she could be happy with him in Zenith, though "America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. I feel everybody watching me, and criticizing me unless I'm buzzing about Doing Something Important. And there's no privacy...
...Fran was not finished with him yet. Her Teutonic lover got bossy, his mother refused to have a divorcee for daughter-in-law. On the steamer, westward bound. Fran took Sam for granted. But when she blithely flirted with new whippersnappers Sam finally balked, rowed ingloriously, took the return steamer to Edith...