  The Priors disembarked from the Ormonde in France. They planned to sleep out, but with winter fading into spring they soon tired of it, and moved into a small apartment in the village of Roquebrune, on the south coast. They ended up staying several months. Arthur liked France, saying ‘It’s the Reddest country we’ve been in so far’. Clare worked as a baker in a cake shop while Arthur translated essays by the French philosopher Georges Sorel. They swelled their meagre income by gambling at nearby Monte Carlo. ‘[W]e play very cautiously’, Arthur said—‘we’re a few hundred francs up’.