Mary Ann Russell quickly introduces herself then tells him “crash dive”. However, Bond’s drink is interrupted when a blonde sits down at his table. For dinner it would be Véfour, the Caneton, Lucas-Carton or the Cochon d’Or, all of which he considered had “somehow avoided the tarnish of the expense account and the dollar”. We learn that Bond usually had lunch at “Café de la Paix, the Rotonde or the Dôme”, headed to Harry’s Bar for a solid drink and because that’s where he went on his first visit to the city aged sixteen on the night which he also lost his virginity. He hasn’t enjoyed being in Paris since 1945. There he daydreams about his plans for the evening when he intends to give Paris one last chance. He considers it “the least offensive of the musical comedy drinks” served in cafes and stipulates Perrier because he considers expensive soda water is the cheapest way to improve a poor drink. Sitting at an outdoor table at Fouquet’s, he orders an Americano. In Paris after a “dismally failed assignment on the Austro-Hungarian border”, James Bond is dreading his return to London. The Hildebrand Rarity From a View to a Kill
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