"I turned around. Miss Croyden was standing in front of me. As I could see, she had taken off her socks and was walking barefoot. A barefoot woman - I must admit - is something that particularly moves me. Furthermore, the young lady, with that instinctive feminine coquetry, had tied a bunch of seaweed in her hair. Seaweeds are also something I am unable to resist. However, I managed to restrain myself..."

The Patagonian ocean sinks and a man and a woman are saved in a lifeboat. They land on a deserted island and live a parody of love, full of unexpected and humorous events.
Groucho Marx, a fan of Lecock, writes: "He is one of the funniest guys I know... Once you start reading him, you can't stop anymore."
The great Canadian writer Robertson Davies notes: "To be a great humorist like Lecock, one must have unusually large reserves of empathy and balance the comic, on one end of the emotional scale, with an understanding of the tragic on the other."