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Certain Personal Matters - The House of Di Sorno
In which a chance encounter with a private box leads to the discovery of Euphemia’s youthful romance featuring the melancholic Venetian Ivan di Sorno, whose adventurous passions and dramatic entanglements unfold amid vivid settings and noble intrigues. Therein, the narrator reflects upon the charming illusions of idealised love and the gentle reality that replaces it, all while tantalisingly halted at a suspenseful moment by the mundane imposition of a missing hat.
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