The threat to their peaceful existence arrives in the form of an army on the horizon.
“The Garden of Time” is a fitting but ironic choice as a theme for the year’s most lavish celebration.
The sympathies of “The Garden of Time” seem to lie with the count and countess.
And yet the author slips in hints that their lovely existence may be empty.
When Count Axel puts his arm around his wife’s waist, he realizes that “he had not embraced her for several years.”
Persons:
Count Axel, ”, Ballard, Thom Browne, “