Dessert At The Belvedere

January, 1973

Dessert at the Belvedere"My others are at the cleaner's," I said, even as I was rolling "I've just come from a funeral" around on my tongue. But that would have made him ask who had died. I had the fluent liar's sense of foresight. Gunstone was calmed.Lunch was the Tanglin Club's Friday special, my favorite, seafood buffet. I followed Gun-stone's lead, taking the same things he did, but I soon found that my plate was overloaded with oysters and prawns rather than the crab and...