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Remembering his escapades at the side of a rival during London's 1960s debutante seasons, a man reluctantly accepts his dying nemesis's entreaty to locate a woman with whom the latter may have fathered a child. Wishing to track down a past girlfriend who claims he had fathered her child, the rich and dying Damian Baxter contacts an old friend from his days at Cambridge. The search takes the narrator back to 1960s London, where everything is changing--just...