The Reef Author:Edith Wharton Sitting opposite, in the compartment from which he had contrived to have other travellers excluded, Darrow looked at her curiously. He had never seen a face that changed so quickly. A moment since it had danced like a field of daisies in a summer breeze; now, under the pallid oscillating light of the lamp overhead, it wore the hard stamp of expe... more »rience, as of a soft thing chilled into shape before its curves had rounded.
When Anna Leath, a young American widow, has a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, she feels disturbed. She returns to her country chateau in France to await her future. But it turns out that Anna's future, and the very foundation of her life, is fragile where it appears most strong...« less