She had pulled down the straps of her bikini in order to have an even tan on her golden-brown back. The villa, when they eventually reached it, was large and full of faded velvet-upholstered furniture. Its drawbacks – not mentioned by the agents – included only one bathroom for the seven bedrooms and two lavatories that flushed reluctantly and sometimes not at all. The mosquito nets over the beds were full of holes, well known and found by the mosquitoes. The house, described as having a garden bordering the beach, was in fact cut off from the sea by a railway line that had to be crossed with care since a small train puffed along it, back and forth, at irregular intervals. The party consisted of Dad, Diana, their youngest child Susan, Diana’s brother and his new wife, and Dad was paying for all of it. There was a cook and a gardener, so all Diana had to do was order the meals. In spite of that, there was a feeling of dissatisfaction in the air. Louise noticed that Diana seemed only to speak to her father to tell him to do something – ‘The least you could do’ was how she often put it.
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