Books: Heartbreak House

THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES (271 pp.)—Diana Cooper—Hough-ton M/Y-flin ($5).

It is something to have had for a grandfather a duke who, after ringing a gold bell, was able to order his groom of the chambers: "Perfection round at a quarter before three, if you please." Perfection was only a horse, but in Belvoir Castle, it might have seemed to young Diana Manners that the Seventh Duke of Rutland had only to ring his little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper,...

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