St. Mayr (1925) 2

Lou is from Louisianna. New Orleans. She and her fifty year old mother Mrs. Witt live in England, on mommy's money. 

Rico is originally from Australia, the son of a titled diplomat and Lou's husband. Rico is a catch, but something is lacking, besides his modest allowance.

St. Mawr is an magnificent orange horse who plays poorly with others but nonetheless has Lou captivated.

Here is Lou on her mother, presupposition and psychology:

"Always the same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen. Always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives.  If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presupposes a whole world-laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology." (30)