Lovers and Friends

"Lovers and Friends" is one of the very best of the Bensonian stories—a comedy of three egoists, father, mother, and daughter.

The mother is a sort of heartless "Dodo," whom one cannot quite despise because her heartlessness is, like her irrepressible love of pleasure, like that of a child. She is an egoist whom hosts of people are mildly fond of, if only because she wants them to be a part of her pleasure. She has let herself be married young by the impossible bounder Philip, and, luckily ...