Solvent again after getting on his feet in Prague, the main character's initial drop-in at the Ritz bar to have his daily drink and check out the scene proves to be his undoing when Lorraine Quarles and Duncan Schaeffer, former friends, drunkenly stumble into the Peters' home just as they are ready to give him custody of his daughter Honoria.
As this work's protagonist dejectedly leaves his sister-in-law's Rue Palatine address he ponders how "the snow of 29, wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow you just paid some money" as he recalls the stupid fights that he and Helen had in the previous decade. Solvent again after getting on his feet in Prague, the main character's initial drop-in at the Ritz bar to have his daily drink and check out the scene proves to be his undoing when Lorraine Quarles and Duncan Schaeffer, former friends, drunkenly stumble into the Peters' home just as they are ready to give him custody of his daughter Honoria. FTP identify this Fitzgerald short story named for an ancient city whose luxury approximated Paris during the Roaring Twenties.
As this work's protagonist dejectedly leaves his sister-in-law's Rue Palatine address he ponders how "the snow of 29, wasn't real snow.
Babylon Revisited