Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
American Day Dream
Biblis painting
Boulevard des Capucines
He had got a fact but it was a fact that for thefirst time awoke in him an uneasy feeling. Canon Pennyfather had not been at the LucerneConference. He had meant to go to that conference. It seemed very extraordinary to theArchdeacon that he had not been there. He might, of course, have taken the wrong plane,though on the whole B.E.A. were pretty careful of you and shepherded you away from suchpossibilities. Could Canon Pennyfather have forgotten the actual day that he was going tothe conference? It was always possible, he supposed. But if so where had he gone instead?
　　He addressed himself now to the air terminal. Itinvolved a great deal of patient waiting and being transferred from department todepartment. In the end he got a definite fact. Canon Pennyfather had booked as a passengeron the 21.40 plane to Lucerne on the 18th but he had not been on the plane.