The Frenchman showed her a great deal of Paris that day, saying over lunch at a café that it was impossible to see everything of interest in so short a time. “And of course the...

Delta glanced at the artwork, the leather-bound books in the glass-fronted bookshelves, the fresh flowers in assorted vases.”This is stunning,” she said, moved by the beauty all around her. “Your home is beautiful.”Valois squeezed her...