“Impossible!”
“And we never met?”
“I so seldom went into town. If I had known....”
“But what a pity!”
“Yes. And what’s still funnier is that, when you were on the Riviera, I was there too.”
“Look here, old fellow, you’re kidding me!”
“I never knew till later that you were there also that year. But you were at Monte Carlo and I at Antibes. Just compare the dates.”
They compared dates: Brauws was right.
“But that was horribly unlucky.”