Xingu (Or The Lunch Club): Chapter Two

In this short novella by Edith Wharton, we are treated to a hilarious vignette of a New York ladies' Lunch Club in the early 1920s. In Chapter Two, the group assembles nervously in Mrs Ballinger's drawing room to meet their dazzling guest Ozric Dane, author of 'The Wings of Death'.

But Ozric Dane's penetrating and some might say merciless gaze does not make her the easiest of guests, and Mrs Ballinger's failure to brief the other ladies with a discussion topic beforehand only adds to their sense of unease.

Reviews

Hilarious! Thanks, Mandy, for bringing this story to life! 💖😊

Love the biting satire; yet I can’t dislike these ladies who are all too human. Thanks Mandy🙏🏻

LOL this story is hilarious! I can see the great Dames of theater sitting around the table, looking so proper, nervously shifting looks from one to another to get out of one predicament after another! 🙏🏻😆💖