CHAPTER FOUR
“The Paris Exposition is intended to mark the centenary of the French Revolution,” Vanda recited.
She was reading aloud from a booklet she had found in her room the previous evening. She had read it from end to end, then again when she dressed and now she was reading it once more over breakfast.
She had insisted on eating the first meal of the day in the downstairs restaurant, saying that this would enable them to “watch the Parisian world go by.”
Robert only wished he could stifle a feeling that she wanted to be sure of seeing Piero arrive.
“There are numerous museums and exhibitions,” she continued, “but the most spectacular of all is the Eiffel Tower. Built by Gustave Eiffel, it stands three hundred metres high and is the tallest building in the world. “It is lit by te
