The setting sun

As a work trying to capture the debasement of a soon-to-be-defunct aristocracy, it does quite well. Tries to gin up your sympathy for these fallen angels and their inability to merge with the “coarse” world of the lower classes, but falls somewhat flat there. That’s coming from a sincere believer in the ideals of a small-D democratic society, though. The decline of any and all aristocratic class is largely the point.