Part 3, La Côte Basque, p. 168 - 180 Summary

Jones comments in narration that after lunch, Lady Ina seemed almost ready to tell him what she really wanted to tell him, but then she becomes distracted by another story, this one of a woman she identifies only as "the governor's wife" and a middle-aged Jewish stud she calls Sidney Dillon. She tells how Dillon set his mind to seducing the governor's wife because she represented everything he wasn't allowed to be part of. She says that he eventually succeeded, encountering the wife at a dinner party, taking her to the small apartment he shares with his wife, and after some awkward small talk, leading her to his bed. There, Lady Ina says, he attempted to have sex with her but was meeting with no response, with even penetrating her not...