". . . I didn't want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me . . ." The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother' house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young woman in Paris, her father' death has sent her back to a forgotten homeland, where rigid decorum governs. Two men--the married man she adores and the...