True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2)

A lightly comic social novel set between city and seaside, tracing a circle of young people and their families as romantic entanglements, parental interference, mistaken impressions, and seaside pastimes produce both embarrassment and affection. Scenes move from warm city evenings to energetic surf-bathing, hotel excursions, and domestic parlors, where suitors are discussed, friendships tested, and a mother's anxieties complicate courtship. The narrative blends vivid local color with character portraits and episodic incidents—tableaus, storms, farewells—that reveal social manners, rivalries, and the persistence of temperament under changing circumstances.