You would be absolutely alone there except for the visit of an occasional French painter.

La Napoule is eight or ten miles from Cannes, so that you are within reach of a town and its amusements.

There is still another place I had thought of, quieter than either, in the mountains behind Nice." "Nice sounds wonderful, Frank, but I should meet too many English people there who would know me, and they are horribly rude.

I think we will choose La Napoule." About ten o'clock we got out at La Napoule and installed ourselves in the little hotel, taking up three of the best rooms on the second or top floor, much to the delight of the landlord.

At twelve we had breakfast under a big umbrella in the open air, looking over the sea.