Undertow and The Treasure

The marriage of Albert Bradley and Anne Polk Barrett was as close as anything comes in these prosaic days to a high adventure. Nancy's Uncle Thomas a quiet gentle old Southerner who wore tan linen suits when he came to New York which was not often and Bert's mother a tiny Boston woman who had lived in a diminutive Brookline apartment since her three sons had struck out into the world for themselves respectively assured the young persons that they were taking a grave chance. (Excerpt)