Consummation on the Water

Midnight settled over Lake Como, wrapping the historic villas and rugged alpine bluffs in an intimate, velvety silence. Far out in the middle of the lake, away from the twinkling shoreline lights of Bellagio and Varenna, the *Chimera* drifted quietly on the tranquil water, its engines shut down and its teak decks bathed in the silver brilliance of the waxing moon. In the yacht's luxurious master stateroom, the French doors…