"The Dud Avacado"

<Life abroad:>

• Two Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.
• .. those devastating and shattering revelations one was always being treated to at the more English-speaking cafes like the Flore.
• Anyhow it's her first time free and her first time across and, by golly, she goes native in a way the natives never had the stamina to go.
• To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.
• We both giggled at the absurdity of knowing a Frenchman in France.
  
• The phrase "Old World" flashed through my mind. He was no match for my American callowness.
• Shopping for food in Paris, as I soon discovered .. called into play words I'd never even heard before.
  

<High society:>
__ Not so with those at the Ritz. Ho, no. These were no mere jewels of indulgent relatives. These had been acquired in some much more serious, mysterious and complete way.
__ They invited me to a different place on an average of one every five minutes, but I discovered there were two rules governing this: first, it had to be a place you'd never been to... and second, it was understood that each invitation canceled the previous one - I'll leave you to guess what the very last one always was.

<Life in arts:>

• Word had got around that I was going to the Embassy, and he was eager to accompany me. He hadn't been across the river in weeks - it would make a nice outing for him.
• (Working in theatre:) To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to first with and just above the ability to knit.
• It was a rude awakening... to face the fact that I'd lived twenty-one years without being discovered once. I was obviously the sort of thing that started happening to you young.
• All the other Extras, local French and mostly old men, have taken to wandering into the bistros that dot the waterfront as soon as they're opened. By eleven o'clock yesterday the foule had thinned out so much, they had to comb all the bars and rout them out. Now there is talk of posting spies at strategic points.
  

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