First chapter
On June in 1925 a woman and her daughter arrived,and were brought down to Gause's hotel, rose-colored hotel with palm treesin front of it. Many fashionable people spend their summers there.
The mother did not think that theywould like the place, and the daughter,Rosemary,wanted to go home,too, and so they decidedthat they would onlystay for three days.
As Rosemary stepped out to the beach, she took offher bathrobe and walked out into the sea until the water was brest-high, and then glanced back to the shore and saw a bald man regarding her attentively.When Rosemary returned on the shore he introduced himself to her as Campion. On the beach she met also Mrs. Abrams, Mrs.McKisko, Mr. McKisko, and MrDumphry who had recognized her as Rosemary Hoyt and they told her that she was a marvelous actress.