Ned Rifle’s Reviews > Under the Volcano > Status Update

"Outside, in the sunlight, in the backwash of tabid music from the still-continuing ball, Yvonne waited again, casting nervous glances over her shoulder at the main entrance of the hotel from which belated revellers like half-dazed wasps out of a hidden nesti issued every few moments while, on the instant, correct, abrupt, army and nave, consular the Consul, with scarce a tremor now, found a pair of dark glasses and