Twenty-four hours of a woman's life

At the beginning of the century, a small pension on the Riviera. The guests of the establishment are in an uproar, the wife of one of the boarders, Mrs. Henriette, has left with a young man, who had, only been there one day. Only the narrator defends this morally bankrupt creature. And, his only ally is, a dry and distinguished old English lady. It is she who, in the course of a long conversation, will explain to him, which badly extinguished fires this adventure has rekindled in her