Barbara Kaye > Quotes

“I found a stout American lady with a voice like a corncake, giving a lecture on the history of Froke to two silenced Scandinavians and a little man who was probably her husband. They were on the terrace. As far out of earshot as possible I observed your mother have a great success with a middle-aged gentleman whom I since learnt is an Italian Count. In the drawing-room a dangerous-looking brunette is singing in Italian to an uneasy looking Dutchman and in the library an outsized Dane is sitting with your father and a bottle of gin—saying “skaal”!”
― Barbara Kaye , Festival at Froke