The Affair at the Inn

Four guests relate, in alternating first-person accounts, a light comedy set at a lonely Devonshire inn, where chance encounters and traveling habits produce social misunderstandings, romantic entanglements, and wry observations about manners and health. Each narrator offers a distinct voice and perspective, exposing private motives, mistaken impressions, and the small hypocrisies of polite society. The episodic structure shifts between intimate domestic detail and farcical complications until the characters' perspectives intersect and the overlapping stories produce reconciliations and clarifications.