Ada or Ardor pre HUMOUR But that won’t be easy

But that won’t be easy when he’s hiding a crucial secret from her

until he is forced to go to public school

The result is remarkable

as though implying that his Foreign Minister had misled him about England s probable reaction

Ada or Ardor pre HUMOUR But that won’t be easyNabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their