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    The William Trevor Reader: “The Bedroom Eyes of Mrs. Vansittart”

    by Adam O’Fallon Price Nov 03, 2022 3 minutes

    Whatever else may be true of this story, it has the best title of any story in the —possibly the best story title ever. The lady with the bedroom eyes in question, Mrs. Vansittart, is an American expat living in Cap Ferrat, on the Cote d’Azur, in a grand Villa with her meek husband Harry. As small communities, even or especially fabulously rich ones, tend to do, the denizens of Cap Ferrat have concocted near-mythical rumors about Mrs. Vansittart’s, well, tartiness. At 54, she still cuts a striking figure on the beach

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