Rose Macaulay

Mystery at Geneva Rose Macaulay

Book Excerpt: ...t walk on the Quai. They were holding meetings together and drawing up hundreds of petitions, so that the Assembly might receive at least one an hour from to-morrow onwards. Zionists do these things thoroughly. Motor-cars hummed to and fro between the hotels and the Secretariat, and inside them one saw delegates. Flags flew and music played, and the jet d'eau sprang, an immense crystalline tree of life, a snowy angel, up from the azure lake into the azure heavens. Henry gave a little sigh of pleasure. He liked the scene."Will there be treats?" he asked his companion. "I like treats.""Treats? Who for? The delegates get treats all right, if you mean that.""For us, I meant.""Oh, yes, the correspondents get a free trip or a free feed now and then too. I usually get out of them myself; official beanos bore me. The town's very good to us; it wants the support of the press against rival claimants, such as Brussels.""I should enjoy a lake trip very much,"...