Amongst other small, ordinary pieces, it contains, a tea service which is not the valuable set of French Odiot silver her husband had said he owned and also a pair of nymph and faun candlesticks which are not Renaissance, as her husband had thought, but Victorian. After he arrives, they open the crate of silver. There she settles paperwork with Cortona, a Rosecrans employee, and the two wait for the man from Brentford's, E. She is eager to meet the man and travels by train to Chiasso. The voice on the phone reminds her of that of her early lover, Gordon, who committed suicide nearly thirty years before, and she arranges to meet the man at Rosecrans, a moving-and-storage firm in Chiasso, Switzerland, where the silver is stored. Richardes, the 52-year-old widow of an elderly, retired, British physician, receives a phone call from a worker for Brentford's, the Geneva auction house she has contacted to help her sell some of her husband's silver. At her home in Bordighea on the Italian Riviera, Mrs.
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