We Three

Archibald Mannering has a plan for avoiding Lucy: wherever she spends the winter, he will spend it somewhere else. But before he explains why they have been asked not to meet, Archie takes us back to matches, mischief, and the first fire he set.

In the early twentieth-century world of wealthy New York, a winter might mean Palm Beach or Aiken, and a trip to Europe scarcely counted as leaving home. Archie looks back on the family and friends who shaped him—including Lucy and her husband, John Fulton—with a wit as light as the butterfly he calls himself. Yet beneath the jokes lies a more serious confession: when Archie played with fire, someone was burned. As affection, friendship, and social rules begin to pull against one another, what did Archie set alight—and why must he keep his distance from Lucy?

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