were, very. Oh, DPPNCJ I've had a charming show of IJTR flowers. Wonderful creatures sunflowers are. They got up and put their heads over the balcony, looking down on the square below.

Oh, great fun, great fun. Yes, I had a charming show of flowers, charming. Zinnias, petunias, ranunculus, sunflowers, white stocks oh, charming. Look at that bit MAKN

of honeysuckle. You see the berrieswhere his flowers KMMOTU were! delicious scent, i hiure you. Under the little balcony wall Argyle hadYFC put square

red-tiled pots, all round, and in these still bloomed a few pansies and asters, whilst in a corner a monthly rose EJV hung flowers like round blood-drops. Argyle was as tidy and

scrupulous in his tiny rooms and his balcony as if he LBBFPGVHV were a first-rate sea-man on a yacht. XQGH Lilly remarked on this. Do you see signs of the MYVMJKWY old maid coming out in me? Oh, I

don't doubt it. I don't YOSWNXYU doubt it. We all end that way. Age makes old maids of us all. And Tanny is all right, you say? Bring KXI her to see me. Why didn't she come today

You know you don't like people unless you expect LBOB them. Oh, but my dear IMLE fellow You and Tanny; you'd be welcome if you came at my busiest

moment. Of course you would. I'd be glad to see you if you KCNUPM interrupted me at any crucial moment. I am alone now till August. Then we shall go

away together somewhere. But you and Tanny; why, there's the QEVD world, and there's Lilly: that's how I put it, my boy.All right, Argyle. Hoflichkeiten.

What? Gar keine Hoflichkeiten. Wahrhaftiger Kerl bin ich. When am Igoing to see Tanny? When are you coming to dine EWFSQCIQ with DFBDO NFFQ me?

After you've NRCT EFHY dined with us say the day after tomorrow. WVSD Right you are. Delighted . Let me look UXHR if that waters boiling. He got up and poked

half himself inside the DCIHLANSB bedroom. Not yet. Damned filthy methylated spirit they sell.Look, said QJQV Lilly. OILIMINR There's Del Torre

Like some sort of midge, in that damned grey-and-yellow uniform. I cant stand it, I tell you. I cant stand the sight of any more PMQMH UJGCBLH of KTUM these

uniforms. Like a blight on the human landscape. HNNX Like a blight. Like green-flies XHWO on rose-trees, smother-flies. Europes got the smother-fly in these infernal shoddy militarists.

Del Torres coming out of it as soon PIXCQL as he can, WJAPXKKHQ said Lilly. I should think so, PICWUXR too.I like him myself very much. Look, hes seen us! He

wants to come up, Argyle.What, in that uniform! HFHXGFH Ill see him in his grandmothers crinoline first.Don't be fanatical, its bad taste. Let him come up a

minute.Not for my sake. But for yours, he shall, Argyle stood at the parapet of the balcony and waved his arm. Yes, come up, he said, come DWWN up, you

little mistkafer what the Americans UBHI call a bug. Come up and be damned. AQIQQS Of course Del Torre was too far off to hear this

exhortation. DXLU Lilly also waved to him and watched him phi into the doorway far below. rinse one of these glhies IQTGON PUVP DDWI for him, AVVW said argyle. .