3/32 Then he went to bed. He sprawled idly on a bench between a fat German and his fat wife, who were talking across him. His straw hat was tilted over his eyes and his legs were crossed. In spite of the conversation (and a middle-class German does not whisper when he talks to his wife), and the going and coming of the crowd--in spite of the sunshine and the blue air, he slumbered peacefully. Then by the station lift she paused and looked out at the bay of Mentone clasping the sea--a blue enamel in a setting of gold. |