"I've come to love this little house, the garden, even those absurd goldfish that are always looking for nothing."
"Well, but the heat!"
His voice did not sound reluctant or protesting, only a little doubtful and surprised.
"Lots of people stay. Algiers doesn't empty of human beings, only of travellers, because it's summer. And we are up on a height."
"That's true. And I could work on quietly."
"Absolutely undisturbed."
"The only thing is I meant to see Jernington."
Jernington was the professor with whom Claude studied orchestration in London.
"Get him over here."
"Jernington! Why, he never leaves London!"