The American girl, as seen and portrayed by Howard Chandler Christy

When the two, beautiful and young American girls came to Agay from the Nice-Cannes airport in a taxi and sought transportation to the island, they were immediately questioned by the police. The local chief himself came down to the boat house to question the girls, and was promptly set back on his ears by the taller and very slightly older of the two girls, who produced a set of documents that had the man begging a thousand pardons. In turn, the police chief railed at the "stupid" boat owner for daring to question the girls' authority to go to the island with their suitcases and heavy load of camping gear. And while a new set of rumors spread throughout the gossipy village over the next few days, the “V.I.P." American girls had not been seen, preferring to use the beautiful Oceanside of the small island as their vacation retreat. Maria Marshall and her companion had come purely and simply for relaxation and sensual pleasure, away from everyone they knew or might bump into. Maria was a tall, voluptuous girl of twenty-seven ...»