And we will search with looks and words of love
For hidden thoughts, each lovelier than the last.
[I
ADVENTURE IN LONDON]
Et quelle est la femme qui ne chercherait pas à vous rendre heureux!
HE awoke with a parched mouth and cramped limbs to find himself being shaken and to hear a voice saying:
“Hi, mate, time to wake up. Can’t leave you no longer.”
“Eh? Is this London?”
“Aye, and London it’s been these three hours past. You came in by the five-twenty-five, and I couldn’t get you to wake up, I couldn’t. You’re in the sidings.”
René shook himself and clambered down with the red-headed railway porter, and walked with him across the rails through several coaches, back to the station.