"What did you do when you were first here?" "As a matter of fact we used to play piquet."
"I see."
"Of course one gets rath
er tired of piquet. As a
matter of fact I've got some friends here-- fright
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stayed. There vvas a?.°'qaite an artist colony living
all round. You co. um Wlk along by the sea to the
fishing village w. ne.r.e there was a cocktail bar
where people r..'ne.'e were a few shops. It was
all very peacefu.lasant. Girls strolled about
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m trousers wPt
,g tly colored handkerchiefs
tied round the pper halves of their bodies. Young
men in berets with rat[er long hair held forth in
"Mac's Bar" on SUch subjects as plastic values
and abstractiffn in art.
On the da-aadfteer r. Parker Pyne's arrival,
Mrs. Chester ,m. . a t-w conventional remarks to
him on the svt°J,ect of the view and the likelihood
of the weathreeremPitlg fine. She then chatted a
little with th
mah lady about knitting, and
had a few pla.sant ,W.%ds about the sadness of the
political situu°n .W!tll two Danish gentlemen who
spent their tme nsm at dawn and walking for