“And as my old friend Irene Kamp used to quote some French guy who said, ‘Everything will work out, but badly.’ I’ve always known everything could fall apart at a moment’s notice, ever since Walter left—my old boyfriend who used to live at the Château. I’ve always tried to cultivate a disillusioned and world-weary attitude to counteract my rude streak of optimism, which gets in the way of reality. Not that anything works.”
