The Fig Tree Murder
“Milling, certainly, because that was what Cairo crowds always did, move round and round in a mass, getting nowhere. Crowd, more doubtfully, since although there were several score at the finishing post, there were only several dozen at the starting gate and in between there was virtually nobody.
‘Promising, though,’ said the Belgian beside him. ‘As soon as we get the railway line finished they’ll come flocking in.’ There was almost more of a crowd upstairs at the reception. The international co...mmunity had turned out in large numbers. Almost every consulate was represented. The British Consul-General was not there, but Paul, his aide-de-camp and Owen’s tennis partner, was standing in for him. Garvin, the Commandant of Police was there, always a man for the races. Princes and Pashas were there in abundance.
Zeinab had also deigned to come. Not because she was in the slightest interested in horses—she knew they pulled her carriage and that was about it—but because she had decided that Owen could not safely be left alone with ‘that girl’.MoreLess
‘Promising, though,’ said the Belgian beside him. ‘As soon as we get the railway line finished they’ll come flocking in.’ There was almost more of a crowd upstairs at the reception. The international co...mmunity had turned out in large numbers. Almost every consulate was represented. The British Consul-General was not there, but Paul, his aide-de-camp and Owen’s tennis partner, was standing in for him. Garvin, the Commandant of Police was there, always a man for the races. Princes and Pashas were there in abundance.
Zeinab had also deigned to come. Not because she was in the slightest interested in horses—she knew they pulled her carriage and that was about it—but because she had decided that Owen could not safely be left alone with ‘that girl’.MoreLess
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