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Good evening.
Who is this mysterious good-evening-bidder who speaks thus at this time of day? The radio or what? On the veranda in our midst there stands a woman. She is perhaps fully middle-aged, comely, wearing a classic burberry coat and a pale blue slouch hat of hide or plastic, and holding a carrier-bag of the kind used for air travel.