Fools Mate

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband Jean As the story opens she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano telling him she is off to see her sister Solange In reality she meets her lover Claude at his apartment After some idle chatter and lovemaking he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but as she shivers in disgust he gives her a mink instead How will they hide it from her husband