From "Notes from Mexico"

When Benito replaced her, he gave Mirabelle a condo. He also lent his plane to her best friend, Maxine, so that she could fly down once a year from Paris to keep Mirabelle company when Benito could not.


Now Benito is in trouble. He did not anticipate the current trend of less is more. He built twenty-seven villas along the Turtle coast and he hasn’t sold a single one of them. Mirabelle took me to visit one of them and there was a dead seagull in the pool.