"She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. A woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. There is nothing easier in this world, this woman had claimed, than getting a man to kiss you. Oh really? Eva had said, so how do you do that? Just stand close to a man, the woman has said, very close, as close as you can without touching - he will kiss you in one minute or two. It’s inevitable. For them it’s like an instinct - they can’t resist. Infaillible."
Even Logan Mountstuart had a long distance relationship with Lucy. Not that he marries Lucy, because she eventually leaves him for a reason I have yet to read. But my point is, if Logan, a womanizer, clever young man of 18 during the year of 1924 made it work with Lucy, then why do I find it so obnoxiously difficult to have one 87 years later?
