 He buys 10b Turpentine Lane, a small basement flat in Pimlico.He returns to Paris to finish his existentialist novella, "The Villa by the Lake", staying with his old friend Ben Leeping (now a successful gallery owner).After a failed sexual encounter with Ordile, a young French girl working at Ben's gallery, he attempts suicide but is surprised by the girl when she returns an hour later for her Zippo lighter.