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It was nine o'clock in the morning--early September.
The last of the summer trippers had gone, reluctant to leave all this beauty behind them and pledged to a prompt return. . With their hands filled with bulky bouquets of garden flowers, graciously bestowed by long-time servants who seemed sincerely regretful over their departure, they had edged along the slippery seats of the station bus to make room for the tardy, scurrying back from one last look at the blue bay from the terrace wall. They would go down the hill to Bellagio, cross the bay to Menaggio, and take a funny little funicular over the mountain en route west--and home.