Visitors dwindled over time. […] My world shrank as it depopulated. It became my room, the front room, and the kitchen.

I'm not doing it. Do it thysen!

The climate here is now seductive, sunbaths, birdsong, roses' Junish odor, Indian Summer haze spread thick across the valleys, ocean with more than Mediterranean calm, more than Carib calm even some days..

‘I′m surprised at you, Danny Weston! I thought you had a bit more suss than this. I never thought you were capable of something so ... silly.’