Old man Whittaker

In the prime of life, has been sentenced to die of cancer, and it is his strange and demoniacal whim to expose in name and deed the intimate friends with whose hidden crimes he has had a confessor’s acquaintance.

The purpose of his request

To allow them a terrible moment in which to flavor their own ruin, he asks them for a week-end of celebration and, as the starting gun, informs them of the Memoir...