Indian civilians and retired soldiers: they look forward with little shudders of dismay to August and September which would bring holiday-makers; but did not disdain to let them in a Swiss pension. I never knew Elsom at hectic time when the lodging-houses were full and young men in blazers sauntered along the front, When Pierrots performed on the beach and in the billiard-room at the Dolphin you heard the click of balls till eleven at night. I only knew it in winter. Then in every house on the sea-front, stucco houses with bow-windows built a hundred years ago, there was a sign to inform you that apartments were to let; and the guests of the Dolphin were waited on by a single waited on by a single waiter and the boots.