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"We took the express one Thursday evening on the 26th of June. Hardly anyone goes south at that time of the year, so that we had the carriage to ourselves. Both of us were in a bad temper on leaving Paris, sorry for having yielded to the temptation of this journey, and regretting cool Marly, the beautiful Seine, and our lazy boating excursions, our delightful evenings spent on the banks of the river waiting for nightfall.
"As soon as the train started Paul settled himself comfortably into a corner, and said: ‘It is most idiotic to go to this place. ' As it was too late for him to change his mind then, I answered: ‘Well, you should not have come.'