No. 13 Washington Square

This book is about Mrs. de Peyster, a proud lady who leads the social scene in her city and is determined to keep her status. Every year she spends the summer in Europe. But this summer she cant afford to go to Europe. Rather than create a scandal by not going to Europe, she creates a plan where she will send someone dressed as her on the boat to Europe while she stays hidden in her closed up house for the summer. This story is a sometimes hilarious chronicle of her summer in hiding, where people show up at her house to also live in secret and things just keep getting worse and worse as she tries to avoid discovery.