Incidents in the Rue Laugier

''I have reached the age when a woman begins to perceive that she is growing into the person whom she least plans to resemble: her mother.''

Nadine has always wanted her daughter Maud to be married and off her hands. When the two women are staying at Nadine''s sister''s house near Meaux, they become part of a sophisticated, wordly group into which neither Maud nor Edward Harrison, a young visitor f...