In the drawing room, a crowd of suitably dressed folk are engaged in typically brilliant conversation, laughing affectedly and drinking champagne.
And the temperamental concert pianist, frenziedly pounding away at the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, affectedly fiddling with his coat tails, orchidaceously turning the pages of his .
At 23 Gide was a pale, thin neurotic who roamed the streets of Paris with brown beard, affectedly long hair and a spectacular cape.