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"Then he showed us round his place I forget how many hundreds of acres of vines, and into the great building with the presses and pumps and casks and the huge barrel they call the thunderbolt and about seven o'clock we walked back to Darbisson to dinner, carrying our wine with us.
I don't know whether he'd stand to that in the case of Englishwomen; Carroll and I didn't.... We were walking rather slowly along, four abreast across the road; we asked permission to introduce ourselves, did so, and received some name in return which, strangely enough, I've entirely forgotten I only remember that the ladies were aunt and niece, and lived at Darbisson.
I only began to see when Rangon, with more apologies, told us that we should have to go back to Darbisson for dinner.
He drove us back himself, through Darbisson, to the house, a mile and a half beyond it, where he lived with his mother.
"Well, we got to Darbisson. We'd run across some young chap or other Rangon his name was who was a vine-planter in those parts, and Rangon had asked us to spend a couple of days with him, with him and his mother, if we happened to be in the neighbourhood. So as we might as well happen to be there as anywhere else, we sent him a postcard and went. This would be in June or early in July.
They shook their heads when I mentioned M. Rangon's name and said we were visiting him. They didn't know him.... "I'd never been in Darbisson before, and I haven't been since, so I don't know the map of the village very well. But the place isn't very big, and the house at which we stopped in twenty minutes or so is probably there yet.
There were no English ladies in Darbisson, he said.... We told him as nearly as we could just where the house was we weren't very precise, I'm afraid, for the village had been in darkness as we had come through it, and I had to admit that the cypress hedge I tried to describe where we'd met our friends was a good deal like other cypress hedges and, as I say, Rangon wasn't taking any.
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