Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a rising star at a time when women players wore billowy dresses and used wooden rackets.

Then there’s this nettlesome question: Would there be any such angst if the entourage members weren’t black and didn’t wear billowy jeans and copious jewelry?

A triangular cave about as tall as a person emitted great billowy clouds of steam, and gentle waterfalls fed stair-stepping pools at its entrance.