'If it wasn't spring this would be just dandy. But - not bad anyway.'

"On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before."

There's a point in 'BUtterfield 8', in fact the instant it's clear that Gloria will be boarding that boat, it's obvious what's going to happen. It doesn't have to happen, does it? But it's so horribly inevitable, not just for the story but the convention of all these stories. By accident and judgemental fate or by their own hand (penance) or another's.

It's not just the punitive element, perhaps something worse, that this always has to happen for the story to end.

John O'Hara seemed to me inconsistent in tone and prone to tangent, but I liked that, could relate. Flaws are good. I thought that he might be different.

I wonder how it works in the film.