Knight's Gambit — William Faulkner

Remembered Love

“Why is it,” Gavin Stevens said, “that people of eighteen or almost -- are so convinced that octogenarians like me are incapable of accepting or respecting or even remembering what the young ones consider passion and love?”

Hopelessly in love with a woman who had contracted two misbegotten alliances, Gavin Stevens, in his forties, suddenly finds himself controlling the destinies of his sweetheart, her lover, and her two children, in the suspense-filled story, Knight's Gambit.