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Lucienne arrived on board the _Bird of Paradise_ towards 5 o'clock on the following afternoon. She had abandoned the absolute negligee in which the Riviera was revelling at the moment, and wore a white beach frock, a panama hat, and carried a sunshade. She came round the point in one of the motor boats which were kept in the private bay of the _château_, and, though she smiled as she recognised Hamer waiting for her, there was a slight restraint about the wave of her hand.
"You look terribly formal," he told her.