Description Alfred A. Knopf, New York, May 1936, 1st American Edition. Hard cover, 269 pages. Orange boards with author’s embossed initials on front board; faded gilt lettering and design on lightly pushed spine ends; a few small spots on front board; green top stain, deckled fore-edge; bit of age spotting on outer page block. Binding sound. No jacket. Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages. ‘It is set in France and Great Britain following World War I, and its action takes place on a single February day in a house in Paris. In that house, two young children—Henrietta and Leopold—await the next legs of their respective journeys: Henrietta is passing through on her way to meet her grandmother, while Leopold is waiting to meet his mother for the first time.’ (from Wikipedia)