‘It is not,’ he explained to Violet on the telephone, ‘that I am responsible for Robert. I am not condemned to take care of him. Only the girls, I mean Katerina and Eufemia, say it’s their duty to inform the police, it’s the law and so on.’ ‘Has he got his passport with him?’ ‘Oh, yes. He always carries his passport when abroad. He could have gone anywhere. It’s all rather typical. …Draw attention to himself. … A real damn nuisance. … Lina and who? Lina and Leo. Who’s Leo? Oh, well, I haven’t time to think about their affairs. Let them sleep with each other all day, all night; I only want to know if she’s had any message. Typical of the young, they don’t care what happens to their friends, they just fall into bed with someone else. … Yes, Violet. I know we were young once ourselves but we had some sense of behaviour, and we had feelings. I’m not going to be condemned to spend my time looking for Robert. No, he isn’t in my flat in Paris; my man there hasn’t seen or heard from him.
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