How it opens
You had come from Geneva to Vevey to visit your aunt, and found your aunt shut up with a headache.
That left the hotel garden to you, and the garden was full of Americans that June, like a field full of a crop.
Randolph, what have you been doing to this gentleman? He looks patient, but he may not be.
He has been lecturing me on the failures of Europe.
He lectures everyone. He is the best informed boy in the world. My mother says so.
Choose
Answer his questions seriously, wrong facts and all.
Turn each demand back on him and let him lecture.
Give him your watch to hold and buy ten minutes of quiet.