There are some mornings when you open the paper and see a story that fills you with dread, because you know that, no matter how repellent—or, because it is just so repellent—everyone will be talking about it. And so we had a flash of such anguish on Saturday, when we caught the piece about Billy and Debbie Bancroft, a family who summer in the Hamptons and rest-of-the-year on the Upper East Side. The article caught the Bancrofts in a moment of party crisis.