I believe that those people left the town next day.
Or perhaps they had only migrated to the other big cafe, on the other side of the Place de la Comedie.

It is very possible.

I did not go across to find out.

It was my perfect idleness that had invested the girl with a peculiar charm, and I did not want to destroy it by any superfluous exertion.

The receptivity of my indolence made the impression so permanent that when the moment came for her meeting with Heyst I felt that she would be heroically equal to every demand of the risky and uncertain future.