Gorgeous is the right word, and I forgot to mention in my post how lovely some of Mansfield's prose is. There's a paragraph where she's describing the deserted summer colony in the afternoon, after everyone has come back from the beach, that is one of the most evocative bits of writing I've read it a while. And thank you for the recommendations. "At the Bay" has left me feeling intrigued, so I will have to check out more of her stories. I'm going to New Zealand in June (!!!) so perhaps I'll save them up to read while I'm there.