The Bath COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

The Bath COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMANThere are few greater luxuries afforded to the Briton than the ritual of the bath. Not the perfunctory, hurried ablutions of the shower—that brutish, Continental invention—but the proper, deliberate submersion into steaming, scented waters, where a man, or woman, might, for half an hour, pretend that the world beyond the bathroom door does not exist. The bath is not for eating in, nor for conducting business, nor even for vigo…