"Today," she went on, "there are few open spaces, houses are smaller, and people live much closer together, and are nevertheless strangers. The city is bigger and noisier and people depend on things like the cinema for their entertainment. In the early ays, our tastes were simpler, life was quieter and yet never boring, because we made up our own amusements. The ADE., for instance, was extremely popular' and put on some splendid performances, both in. the original two-storey building and in
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