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GOLDEN_BELLOC

                                             September 1, 2019


                                           GOLDEN_JOURNEY

    "Belinda listened: and Hilaire Belloc's lines,
    memorized parrot-fashion at school, went
    through her mind with a new haunting meaning:
    *'Do you remember an Inn, Miranda, do you
    remember an inn?' ...  That was an inn she
    would always remember: and she felt strangely
    humble when the last strong hand had been
    shaken and she stood outside alone with with
    Simon Templar under the darkening sky.

Hilaire Beloc poem, "Tarantella" from 1929,
about a meeting with a scottish woman named      http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Belloc-Hilaire_Tarantella.html
Miranda in 1909.

    Do you remember an Inn,
    Miranda?
    Do you remember an Inn?
    And the tedding and the spreading
    Of the straw for a bedding,
    And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,
    And the wine that tasted of tar?


Belinda's school days are perhaps not far behind her: the
curriculum evidently covered a poem published in 1929,
which could only be a handful of years before the events
in this story, which has to be set in the early 1930s.


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