Roman Fever
Two American widows who have known each other since girlhood sit out a late afternoon on a terrace above the Forum while their daughters go off with young men. Knitting and small talk circle back to a Roman winter twenty-five years earlier, to a fever, and to a note one of them received. Wharton's most anthologised short fiction turns a friendship of decades into a duel conducted entirely in politeness.
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