Too much

They watched him leave and for the first time were aware of the gaze of the other customers, most of them tourists, who had lost nothing of this terrible exchange, so much so that they had neglected the famous tasting delights they had come to taste from afar.

Ytel, who came to his senses first, approached Ariadne and got her up with all the gentleness he could muster to take her home.

When he had left the marital home, he had bought one of the beautiful villas in the quiet neighborhoods of February Point in Georgetown in Bahamas. He sat her down in a living room decorated in green and gold, with a shiny parquet floor and a beige carpet, where she put her feet.

He asked his housekeeper, a good local woman with a bright, friendly look and a colorful dress, to prepare some tea.