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Show -276- "Are you going to work today?- his wife asked. She was eating what he was, except that she had substituted small pancakes for his potatoes. She didn't care for potatoes and pancakes with syrup were forbidden him by his diet. "I don't know," he said. "I wish you wouldn't this holiday. I wish we could do something different for a change." "Like what?" he asked her. "Anything," she replied. "Go to a movie - or for a drive. I t ' s been so long since we did something - just the two of us." "Where would you l i k e to go?" the Professor asked. He had rejected in his own mind the idea of a movie. "How about driving out to the coast?" "Yes," she said? "We could do the way we did in France, when we were staying a t Cagne - take a bottle of wine, park on the beach, and just s i t and watch the waves." "All r i g h t , " the Professor said, pleased a t the pleasure the idea brought her, but not as happy as she a t the idea of leaving the house, "and l a t e r we can have lunch a t that l i t t l e French restaurant. What's i t s name?" "Les deux frere." "Yes. When do you xant to leave?" "As soon as we can." "Put on xarm clothes. It will be cold out there." |