How did the writer have his revenge on the lady guest at last?
PremiumHow did the writer have his revenge on the lady guest at last William Somerset Maugham s story The Luncheon shows quiet pain and silent suffering It also shows a final soft revenge The young writer meets a lady admirer at Foyot s the costly Paris restaurant She eats richly He suffers silently But years later time gives him a gentle victory Remembers the Pain of Foyot s The writer meets the lady again in a theatre after many years She smiles and says nbsp You asked me to luncheon nbsp This takes him back to Paris He remembers Foyot s He remembers her lies She had said nbsp I never eat anything for luncheon nbsp But she ate salmon caviar asparagus ice cream and a peach The young writer ate only a mutton chop He drank only water She drank champagne He had only eighty francs for the month